ATLAS, CMS Higgs Boson Data May Already Contain Clues for Solving Decay Rate Puzzle

ATLAS and CMS, the two principal laboratories operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, have made great strides in clarifying the properties of the newly discovered Higgs boson.[1,2] In particular, they have tested how the particle decays to other particles, namely photons, Z bosons, W bosons, tau particles, and bottom quarks. Although the decay rates of these particles have been compatible with those determined through the Standard Model, they have not been an exact match. This report shows how data from ATLAS and CMS may already be solving the puzzle of the incongruent decay rate values, while also revealing a potential, and currently unrecognized, proportional relationship at work in the decay mechanisms of the Higgs particle. The signal strength is the ratio of the observed number of events in a given decay channel over the number expected by way of the Standard Model. A value of 0 would mean no events were observed in that decay channel. A value of 1, the ideal value, would mean that the number of observed events matched the number expected from the Standard Model. If the boson discovered at the LHC is the Standard Model Higgs boson, the signal strength in each decay channel would be 1. Lamont Williams 2 To date, neither ATLAS nor CMS has been able to achieve a value of 1 in all channels simultaneously. Some values have been higher than 1, while some have been lower tha