Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Search For The 'God Particle' Coming To An End?

Chicago's Tevatron particle accelerator: Analyzing data from some 500 trillion sub-atomic particle collisions designed to emulate conditions right after the Big Bang, scientists at Fermilab outside Chicago produced some 1,000 Higgs sightings over a decade of work.

'End Game' For The Higgs: U.S. Particle Collider Helps Prove Einstein Right With New Sightings Of Elusive 'God Particle' -- Daily Mail

A second particle collider - Chicago's Tevatron - has captured glimpses of the elusive Higgs boson, the ‘God particle’ that would complete Albert Einstein's theory of the universe.

The probability that the particles are not the Higgs, but instead a statistical fluke is now just 1 in 250.

Tevatron's sighting tally with measurements from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which is to 'turn up' its beams this year to find the particle by Christmas.

'The end game is approaching in the hunt for the Higgs boson,' said Jim Siegrist, Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics.




More News On The Search For The 'God Particle'

In search for ‘God particle,’ US research confirms Europe’s: No place for Higgs boson to hide -- Washington Post/AP
Data Hint at Hypothetical Particle, Key to Mass in the Universe -- New York Times
Scientists at U.S. lab detect hints of elusive particle -- Reuters
Higgs boson hints multiply in US Tevatron facility data -- BBC
Scientists see 'endgame' for subatomic quest -- MSNBC/Reuters
Strong hints of the Higgs boson from Tevatron particle collider in US -- The Guardian
Hunt for 'God Particle' even closer to conclusion -- The Telegraph
US physicists confirm Higgs finding is near -- AFP
Higgs Boson Finding is Near -- Discovery News
Eureka? Evidence of the Higgs Boson Mounts -- Wired Science
Higgs boson hunt approaching 'end game' say scientists -- Christian Science Monitor
Higgs boson coming into focus, say scientists -- Christian Science Monitor
Are scientists close to uncovering the Higgs boson? -- Christian Science Monitor

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