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Friday, July 6, 2012

A Particle "Consistent with" the Higgs


This week, the CERN collaboration announced the detection of a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson. Both the ATLAS and CMS detectors detected a signal at between 125 and 126 GeV at 5 sigma. The people in charge are naturally cautious. More data is necessary to positively identify the particle, but this time, it certainly looks like the real thing!

Congratulations Particle Physicists!
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3 comments:

  1. Joseph SmidtJuly 6, 2012 at 2:03:00 PM PDT

    Yes, congratulations for sure!

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  2. quantumleap42July 8, 2012 at 12:48:00 PM PDT

    I had three different people ask me about this on Wednesday. It definitely has gotten people (outside of physics) talking about physics again.

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  3. Cameron HoppeJuly 14, 2012 at 11:19:00 AM PDT

    Does this mean the world won't end on December 21st after all?

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