Has The Higgs Been Found? If It's A New Particle, It Is Heavy...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 03:30 in Astronomy & Space

At CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest results in the search for the Higgs particle. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle in the mass region around 125 GeV and a 4.x sigma signal.When the results from the two experiments are combined, they should show a 5-sigma signal and be a discovery. If this is indeed a new particle, then it must be a boson and it would be the heaviest such particle ever found. read more

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