CERN NEWS : HIGGS SEARCH UPDATE 2011

Higgs search status. In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the elusive Higgs. The main conclusion is that the Standard Model Higgs boson, if it exists, is most likely to have a mass constrained to the range 116-130 GeV by the ATLAS experiment, and 115-127 GeV by CMS. Tantalising hints have been seen by both experiments in this mass region, but these are not yet strong enough to claim a discovery.

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[spinynorman1982]

My future self is going to tell my grand kids:

"Billy, when I was your age particle accelerators took up two countries! Don't take for granted your table top ones."

[Lilihieraax Suum]

great comment!

[ManBearPig31095]

I lol'd and made my morning... it's 12 AM :D I should probably go to bed :l

[teppolundgren]

"Skveeze!"

Anyway, I know these things take time and that the scientists have to sift through enormous amounts of data to find the little gold nuggets of discovery. But GOD DAMMIT does it take a long time!!! I'd welcome ANYTHING exciting.

Tell me you're going to destroy the world, anything, and it'll be more fun than waiting for word from CERN.

[LikeMike1234100]

I very much like the quote " the Higgs to be or not to be" that my fellow thinker is smashing

[frenkyusuf]

now listen to me, what you lookin for, that cosmic, that was the final light, with that light, you are going to be creater, you are going to be destroyer and you are going to be maker, nowww, question is this, if you would be the GOD, would you give that chance to human, MUHAMMED IMAM EL MEHDI,

[frenkyusuf]

one of that particle is already inside you,that light is going to infnity,we are already inside that light, we call it ALLAH, it s the only ONE .it has no space,it has no place,it has no time,it has no son,it has no child or wife, it s our owner, and l m its voice, MUHAMMED IMAM EL MEHDI,

[spinynorman1982]

smashing!

[Baronstone]

You can already build a particle accelerator thats smaller than your standard table. Michio Kaku built one as a child.

[frenkyusuf]

sun will blow up, MESSIAHH