Friday, 15 March 2013

Cern tentatively confirms Higgs boson existence

A disk full of silicon sensors that sits as an endcap on ATLAS, one of the LHC experiments searching for the Higgs boson

Data analysis suggests that the "Higgs-like" particle produced by the Large Hadron Collider in July, 2012 is indeed a Higgs boson.


However, the announcement is still being couched in tentative language as despite the data pointing towards the particle being a Higgs boson the next obstacle will be determining which Higgs boson.


By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Liat Clark


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/15/higgs-boson

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