A Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson - But Wait For 2012
CMS Collision Event A typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by dashed yellow lines and red towers) is measured in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other particles produced in the collision. CMS/CERN Physicists at CERN may have caught the first whiffs of the elusive Higgs boson, researchers announced this morning, but more numbers must be crunched before anyone will claim its discovery. Bumps in signals at the Large Hadron Collider are not surefire proof of the so-called god particle, at least not yet - but at the very least they're enough to keep faith in our modern theories of physics. Two detectors have been sifting the detritus from ultra-high-energy proton collisions at the LHC, and so far they have seen "tantalizing hints" of the Higgs, physicists said at a news conference. The particle weighs about 125 to 126 giga-electronvolts, according...