Scientists reveal the latest in subatomic quest for the Higgs
4 Jul 2012, 06:58 UTC
Scientists gathered at the home of the world's most powerful collider today to reveal what's expected to be the clearest evidence ever of a subatomic particle never seen before — a particle that could turn out to be the fabled Higgs boson.
While hundreds streamed into an au …
LBL.govA computer simulation shows what the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector would see when the decay of a Higgs boson results in the production of two gamma rays. The blue beads indicate intermediate massive particles, and the bright green rods are the gamma-ray tracks.By Alan Boyle
Follow @b0yleScientists gathered at the home of the world's most powerful collider today to reveal what's expected to be the clearest evidence ever of a subatomic particle never seen before — a particle that could turn out to be the fabled Higgs boson.While hundreds streamed into an auditorium at the CERN particle-physics center near Geneva, thousands more watched computers and big screens around the world to hear the latest from Europe's Large Hadron Collider. The timing of today's briefings was most convenient for Europeans as well as researchers attending the International Conference on High-Energy Physics in Australia, but video-viewing parties were organized as ...
