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Higgs hunters close in on their quarry
The first solid experimental evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson were unveiled on Tuesday 14th December by physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. Members of the ATLAS experiment revealed evidence that the Higgs particle has a mass of about 126 GeV/c2. Physicists working on the rival CMS experiment released similar – albeit weaker – evidence for a Higgs with a mass of about 124 GeV/c2.
However, ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti cautions that the measurements are not good enough yet to claim the discovery of the particle.
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This image of the ATLAS detector is courtesy of CERN.
Higgs hunters close in on their quarry
The first solid experimental evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson were unveiled on Tuesday 14th December by physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. Members of the ATLAS experiment revealed evidence that the Higgs particle has a mass of about 126 GeV/c2. Physicists working on the rival CMS experiment released similar – albeit weaker – evidence for a Higgs with a mass of about 124 GeV/c2.
However, ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti cautions that the measurements are not good enough yet to claim the discovery of the particle.
Contunue reading the story at physicsworld.com
This image of the ATLAS detector is courtesy of CERN.