Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 10:21 in Astronomy & Space

Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator. The properties of the ZZ diboson make its discovery an essential prelude to finding or excluding the Higgs boson at the Tevatron.

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