Higgs
within reach
Our
understanding of the universe is about to change…
The ATLAS
and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search
for the long-sought Higgs boson. Both experiments see strong indications for
the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson, in the mass region
around 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
The
experiments found hints of the new particle by analysing trillions of
proton-proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2011 and 2012.
The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that a Higgs boson would decay
into different particles – which the LHC experiments then detect.
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