Higgs Boson search: Science in Progress

Daily Telegraph - 14 December 2011

Dr Tom Whyntie (Physics) writes: "Have we discovered the Higgs? Even before Tuesday's announcement at CERN, the official word from Director Rolf Heuer was 'no'.  Neither of the experiments on the Large Hadron Collider has crossed the magic "5-sigma" finish line we use to define a discovery. The Higgs boson is still missing in action. Nobody has booked their flights to Stockholm just yet... A nifty mathematical trick proposed by Peter Higgs (and others, including some from Imperial College London) some fifty years ago allows us to have massive particles, but there's a catch: if it really is how nature works, there should be a Higgs boson we can see in our experiments. Thus even a whiff of it at the Large Hadron Collider's two giant detectors, CMS and ATLAS, is enough to get even the most unexcitable of scientists excited... This is science in progress. It doesn't matter where we end up - we're inviting you to join us on our journey, and we want to let you know how we're getting on."

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