Golden Bars of Consensus and the Truth Quark

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2000-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0006041v3

Physics

General Physics

14 pages, pdf format, note added 25 Feb 2002 on pp. 11-13, put two CDF dilepton figures in proper order

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Scientists are imprisoned by Golden Bars of Consensus, says Burton Richter (hep-ex/0001012). A case in point is the mass of the Truth Quark. The consensus analysis of the experimental data indicates that the mass of the Truth Quark is about 170 GeV. On the other hand, an alternative analysis of the same data indicates that the mass of the Truth Quark is about 130 GeV. If the design of future experiments, including trigger, event selection, data analysis procedures, error analysis, etc., takes into account only the consensus value, and if the consensus value happens to be incorrect, then results of future experiments might be compromised.

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