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The hunt for the Higgs boson particle. Discussing the Search for the Higgs Particle. Does the Higgs boson particle exits?

Discussing the Search for the Higgs Particle

What happens if we find it and what if we don’t? Nowhere to hide: Large Hadron Collider hits world record as beams are switched on for 'endgame' in hunt for Higgs. Two high-energy proton beams hit energy recordStart of year of experiments to find - or rule out - the Higgs bosonParticle will complete Einstein's theory of the universe By Rob Waugh Published: 08:28 GMT, 5 April 2012 | Updated: 13:17 GMT, 5 April 2012 Early this morning, two high energy proton beams crossed at the Large Hadron Collider, breaking the world record for energy in such collisions.

Nowhere to hide: Large Hadron Collider hits world record as beams are switched on for 'endgame' in hunt for Higgs

Will the Missing Piece of the Universe's Grand Design Be Found? Extremely precise measurement of the mass of a sub-atomic particle by an Indian physicist has bolstered the hope of discovering the so-called “God Particle” – the last piece of the missing jigsaw puzzle in the atomic world that scientists need to explain the universe’s grand design.

Will the Missing Piece of the Universe's Grand Design Be Found?

This past Saturday, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced very accurately measuring the mass of a particle called W Boson. Precise measurement of that tiny mass narrows down the search for Higgs Boson—popularly known as the God Particle—which is being hunted in a mammoth underground experimental facility called Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe by spending billions of dollars. Physicists Seeing Hints of Higgs Boson in CERN LHC Data. Fermilab Tevatron physicists see hints of Higgs boson sighting consistent with those from LHC.

Physicists Seeing Hints of Higgs Boson in CERN LHC Data

New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs boson may nearly be cornered. After analyzing the full data set from the Tevatron accelerator, which completed its last run in September 2011, the two independent experiments see hints of a Higgs boson.Physicists from the CDF and DZero collaborations found excesses in their data that might be interpreted as coming from a Higgs boson with a mass in the region of 115 to 135 GeV. In this range, the new result has a probability of being due to a statistical fluctuation at level of significance known among scientists as 2.2 sigma. These findings are also consistent with the December 2011 announcement of excesses seen in that range by LHC experiments, which searched for the Higgs in different decay patterns.

MIT: First-hand observations of Higgs research at CERN. REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Higgs boson developments First-hand observations of Higgs research at CERN July 11, 2012 This summer I have had the opportunity to work with the MIT physics faculty at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, Switzerland.

MIT: First-hand observations of Higgs research at CERN

CERN is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and I am here with a group of MIT professors, postdocs, grad students, and undergrads working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). Tevatron collider's mighty boost for Higgs hunt - physics-math - 05 March 2012. The Tevatron may now be defunct, but it is still detangling the nature of matter from beyond the grave.

Tevatron collider's mighty boost for Higgs hunt - physics-math - 05 March 2012

The late particle-smasher's two main experiments, CDF and DZero, have released the most precise measurement yet of the mass of the W boson, one of the fundamental particles in the standard model of particle physics. The new measurements, combined with earlier data from other detectors, places the W boson's mass at 80.385 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), plus or minus 0.015 GeV. The measurement puts constraints on the mass of the Higgs boson – the long-sought missing piece that would complete the standard model and explain why all other particles have mass – placing it right where experimentalists want it.

Tevatron particle accelerator captures another hint of the elusive Higgs 'God particle' By Rob Waugh Updated: 12:17 GMT, 7 March 2012 A second particle collider - Chicago's Tevatron - has captured glimpses of the elusive Higgs boson, the ‘God particle’ that would complete Albert Einstein's theory of the universe.

Tevatron particle accelerator captures another hint of the elusive Higgs 'God particle'

The probability that the particles are not the Higgs, but instead a statistical fluke is now just 1 in 250. Tevatron's sighting tally with measurements from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which is to 'turn up' its beams this year to find the particle by Christmas. 'The end game is approaching in the hunt for the Higgs boson,' said Jim Siegrist, Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics. Chicago's Tevatron particle accelerator: Analyzing data from some 500 trillion sub-atomic particle collisions designed to emulate conditions right after the Big Bang, scientists at Fermilab outside Chicago produced some 1,000 Higgs sightings over a decade of work. Physicists Pinpoint Elementary Particle, Leading Way to Higgs.