Posted: Jul 06, 2012 9:58 pm
CERN discovers Higgs-like boson - physicsworld.com
It's a boson, but what sort? - physicsworld.com
Look at John Duffield's arguments in the comments. Some of you people may find them rather familiar.
In particular, his argument about the mass of baryonic matter is a red herring. It's true that about 98% of nucleons' masses come from quark and gluon kinetic and interaction energies, as a result of color confinement, another 1% from electromagnetic effects, and another 1% from quark rest masses. But nucleons are bound states of multiple Standard-Model particles, not Standard-Model particles themselves.
It's a boson, but what sort? - physicsworld.com
Look at John Duffield's arguments in the comments. Some of you people may find them rather familiar.
In particular, his argument about the mass of baryonic matter is a red herring. It's true that about 98% of nucleons' masses come from quark and gluon kinetic and interaction energies, as a result of color confinement, another 1% from electromagnetic effects, and another 1% from quark rest masses. But nucleons are bound states of multiple Standard-Model particles, not Standard-Model particles themselves.