Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Higgs Boson May Have Been Glimpsed

The BBC writes, LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed' "Scientists say that two experiments at the LHC see hints of the Higgs at the same mass, fuelling huge excitement. But the LHC does not yet have enough data to claim a discovery."

"At a seminar at Cern (the organisation that operates the LHC) on Tuesday, the heads of Atlas and CMS said they see "spikes" in their data at roughly the same mass: 124-125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). "The excess may be due to a fluctuation, but it could also be something more interesting. We cannot exclude anything at this stage," said Fabiola Gianotti, spokesperson for the Atlas experiment."

"None of the spikes seen by the experiments is at much more than the "two sigma" level of certainty."

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