Higgs boson found!

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http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/New-particle-found-a-milestone-20120704

News24 said:
After a quest spanning nearly half a century, physicists on Wednesday said they had found a new sub-atomic particle consistent with the Higgs boson which is believed to confer mass.

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"We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature," said Cern director general Rolf Heuer.

"The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe."

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Two Cern laboratories, working independently of each other to avoid bias, found the new particle in the mass region of around 125 - 126 Gigaelectronvolts (GeV), according to data they presented on Wednesday.

Both said that the results were "five sigma", meaning there was just a 0.00006% chance that what the two laboratories found is a mathematical quirk.

"The results are preliminary but the five sigma signal at around 125GeV we're seeing is dramatic," said Joe Incandela, spokesperson for one of the two experiments.

"This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it's the heaviest boson ever found. The implications are very significant and it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks."
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The Standard Model validated.
 
They have not found the SM Higgs Boson. They have found a particle which is a Boson, with the same mass as the Higgs Boson is expected to have and they're within 5s certain that it is the Higgs Boson but there are still outstanding tests to be completed before they can say with certainty that this is the SM Higgs Boson
 
HapticSimian said:
Can't wait to see the mainstream media butcher this... -_-
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They already did.

We did not find it, they found a sigma 5 candidate. It can still turn out to have spin and be just another previously undiscovered particle.
 
abzo said:
Who is Higgs and where did he lose his boson?
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Probably airman Higgs who lost his bos'n in an attack on an airship..

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Misleading thread title, it has not been confirmed as yet.

Nothing is validated yet. Did you read the article because nowhere does it confirm anything.

The researchers stressed the preliminary nature of the results they were announcing Wednesday.

"A more complete picture of today's observations will emerge later this year after the LHC provides the experiments with more data," the nuclear research organization, known as CERN, said in its statement.
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They might actually just have opened another door to another hall of mirrors for all we know...
 
Butchered it already is by the MSM. Telly this a.m. was all over the place while media event was being held at CERN.

(BTW, the Press moniker "God particle" is a hoot. Nobel laureate Leon Lederman wanted to title his book "That Goddam Particle" because it was so elusive. The abbreviated form stuck when his publishers balked. Important for plugging some holes wrt mass in the Standard Model, it's very, very, very far from the divinity people are now trumpeting. :D)
 
Arthur said:
(BTW, the Press moniker "God particle" is a hoot. Nobel laureate Leon Lederman wanted to title his book "That Goddam Particle" because it was so elusive. The abbreviated form stuck when his publishers balked. Important for plugging some holes wrt mass in the Standard Model, it's very, very, very far from the divinity people are now trumpeting. :D)
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From the blog above: :D

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Surely if a new particle is discovered, the models must all be revised to account for the new known particle, and the theory on what unknown particles may still exist will be adjusted. The description of the expected bosun-higgs may therefore also be revised.
 
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