Milestone in Higgs quest: Scientists find new particle

Scientists at the home of the world's most powerful collider say they've found a subatomic particle that's never been seen before — a particle that could be the fabled Higgs boson.
"This is a very, very preliminary result, but we think it's very strong," said Joe Incandela, …

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 at the home of the world's most powerful collider say they've found a subatomic particle that's never been seen before — a particle that could be the fabled Higgs boson."This is a very, very preliminary result, but we think it's very strong," said Joe Incandela, spokesperson for the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.Hundreds thronged to an auditorium at the CERN particle-physics center near Geneva to hear the latest from Europe's Large Hadron Collider, and thousands more watched the proceedings on computers and big screens around the world. The timing of today's briefings was most convenient for Europeans as well as ...