w_Q \approx -1.5 ??? (DE-V0.04)

[Boud Roukema]

Cze¶æ wszystkim,

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Boud Roukema wrote:
...
> Now, with a more "neutral" z distribution for the "randoms", the
> signal should in principle be stronger - if it is real.
>
> Well, the resulting signal is spectacular!  :) :) :) :)
>
> We still have a lot of work to do (I have to get plot_cf working), but
> it seems clear that (0.3,0.7,-1.0) gives a bad fit,
> and that (0.3,0.7,w_Q) with
>
> w_Q \approx -1.5
>
> is likely to give a better fit and signal, which would greatly upset
> all the theorists!

Well, after the initial excitement, it looks like it's going to
be less trivial than I thought to get an analysis which is totally
clear and as little dependent on "arbitrary" decisions as possible...

Gary, as far as your talks are concerned, my feeling right at the
moment (after having spent Friday night and the whole of Saturday
working on this :( ) is that it would be better *not* to show the new
plots to your seminar audiences, as they are "hot-off-the-press"
results which have not yet been carefully enough thought through and
checked, and they would distract from the careful, detailed
analysis/discussion in RMB02.

You can certainly say that we're continuing to work on this and that
we got some exciting stuff last week. Anyone who seriously would like
to contribute to the project is welcome to subscribe to the mailing
list (info below) and to help develop the software package DE.


People in Toruñ: the people at Piwnice yesterday decided to have
another meeting next Friday (14:00 as usual), even though officially
the academic year is over. So it's an unofficial wyk³ad :).
But I'm no longer sure that we can have a paper ready by the end
of June - at least my guess right now is that it's less easy than
I thought...

Na ra¿e
Boud