Taiwanese NMSSM Higgs

Taiwanese newspapers argue that it has been "confirmed" that the possible three-event new particle of mass 214.3 MeV (not GeV!) observed by the HyperCP collaboration is a pseudoscalar Higgs boson in NMSSM.

• hep-ph/0610274 (Phys. Rev. D74)
  
• hep-ph/0610362 (Phys. Rev. Lett. 98)

Well, I would remain highly skeptical not only because one of the people who claim this discovery is Taiwanese, too. ;-)




LHC failure

If you are interested in the news about the LHC that has failed the pressure test on 3/27, see a page at the Fermilab where the engineers who forgot to make the structure immune to asymmetric loading are employed. This part has to be redesigned during April and a new test should take place on June 1st.