God particle not yet exposed

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13 december 2011 | CERN’s scientists are inching in toward the elusive Higgs-Boson aka “god particle”. Today they presented further, but not conclusive evidence hinting at its existence. If it does exist, it has a mass of between 124 and 126 gigaelectronvolts.

Getting closer, but still not there yet – this is in brief whatCERN presented today regarding the Higgs-Boson, by many dubbed “godparticle”. The researchers involved put it like this: “[The twoexperiments] ATLAS and CMS see small excesses of events at 124-126GeV. Excess compatible with what would come from a Higgs but tooearly to conclude.

Breakthrough postponed

The renowned scientific magazine Nature concluded the following:”the result is not definitive evidence of the long-sought Higgsboson – yet. But it is the closest so far to come out of the$6.5-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Physicists on theLHC’s two largest experiments announced signals consistent with thepossible appearance of the Higgs boson, a manifestation of theforce field that endows all other particles with mass.”

“If supported by further data, the results suggest a Higgsparticle with a mass of about 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).Theseresults will be based on the analysis of considerably more datathan those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to makesignificant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but notenough to make any conclusive statement on the existence ornon-existence of the Higgs.”

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