Urgent science inside. Higgs Boson

[Photonic]

BBC News - Higgs boson 'glimpsed' at Large Hadron Collider

 

[Mr. H.]

So that's the big news release? the Hb was "glimpsed".
I guess that's better than nothing.

 

[Care4all]

BBC News - Higgs boson 'glimpsed' at Large Hadron Collider

the God particle? from Angels and Daemons?

 

[Photonic]

BBC News - Higgs boson 'glimpsed' at Large Hadron Collider

the God particle? from Angels and Daemons?

God particle is a bit of a misnomer, since we currently believe the higgs particle is a result of a higgs field. The higgs field is what gives mass.

What gives it the name "God" particle is simply because it is the last as of yet undiscovered elementary particle that was predicted by Standard Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I would also like to note that it has been given a 2.3 sigma probability.

For those not scientifically literate, that means a 1/46 probability of random noise being the perpetrator of the signal, instead of the Higgs Boson. Further testing will raise the probability level.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Or 2.174% chance of being false or a 97.826% of being real. Very high odds of being real.

What are we going to do with this if it is real?

 

[Photonic]

Or 2.174% chance of being false or a 97.826% of being real. Very high odds of being real.

What are we going to do with this if it is real?

Scientists generally keep testing until it's a 1/1000000 chance of being wrong. Which is 99.99999% chance of being the real deal.

There are entire books written by some of the greatest scientific minds in the world about the possibilities of being able to manipulate such things.

 

[waltky]

possum found it once, Granny made him give it back to ol' man Higgs...

New measurement brings Higgs boson closer
March 2,`12 (UPI) -- Scientists at a U.S. particle physics lab say they've made the world's most precise measurement of one of nature's elementary particles.

The world's best measurement of the mass of the so-called W boson was made by scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., a Fermilab release reported Friday. The new measurement is an important step to discovering the mass of the theorized Higgs boson, the last undiscovered component of the Standard Model of physics thought to give all other particles their masses.

Scientists searching for the so-far elusive Higgs particle employ two techniques: attempts at direct production of Higgs particles or precision measurements of other particles and forces that could be influenced by the existence of Higgs particles.

The new measurement of the W boson mass falls into the precision category, and comes from analysis of data from Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator. "This measurement illustrates the great contributions that the Tevatron has made and continues to make with further analysis of its accumulated data," Fermilab Director Pier Oddone said. "The precision of the measurement is unprecedented and allows rigorous tests of our underlying theory of how the universe works."

Read more: New measurement brings Higgs boson closer - UPI.com

 

[Peach]

BBC News - Higgs boson 'glimpsed' at Large Hadron Collider

the God particle? from Angels and Daemons?

God particle is a bit of a misnomer, since we currently believe the higgs particle is a result of a higgs field. The higgs field is what gives mass.

What gives it the name "God" particle is simply because it is the last as of yet undiscovered elementary particle that was predicted by Standard Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I would also like to note that it has been given a 2.3 sigma probability.

For those not scientifically literate, that means a 1/46 probability of random noise being the perpetrator of the signal, instead of the Higgs Boson. Further testing will raise the probability level.

Or it will lower the probability.

 

[waltky]

Granny says dat's why March was so unusually warm...

LHC is back with big energy boost
5 April 2012 - Two teams at the LHC have seen hints of what may well prove to be the Higgs boson

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operating again after its winter break. Early on Thursday, opposing stable beams of protons were smashed into each other at four observation positions. The total collision energy in these bunches of sub-atomic particles was eight trillion electron volts - a world record. Scientists expect the big boost in capability to significantly increase the collider's chances of discovering "new physics". The great expectation is that they will definitively confirm or deny the existence of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that would help explain why matter has mass.

"The experience of two good years of running at 3.5 TeV per beam gave us the confidence to increase the energy for this year without any significant risk to the machine," explained Steve Myers, the director for accelerators and technology at Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research). "Now it's over to the experiments to make the best of the increased discovery potential we're delivering them!" Since first switching on in 2008, operators at the LHC have cautiously increased the energy contained in each of the bunches of protons sent around the 27km collider, which lies beneath the Franco-Swiss border.

It is planned that the collider will collect data until November, after which it will be upgraded during a shutdown period that will last 20 months. That should result in an operating proton beam energy of 14 trillion electronvolts, or teraelectronvolts - another great leap in capability. The LHC collaboration hopes to reach that milestone in 2014, re-starting the hunt for novel physics in early 2015. In the 2012 run of experiments, the Higgs will be a key focus.

Teams working on the two major detectors at the facility announced at the end of last year that they had seen hints of the particle, but stopped short of claiming they had seen it with certainty. Anticipation was then further heightened a month ago by news that the recently closed Tevatron collider, based at the US national laboratory Fermilab, had also seen a "bump" in its archived data around the same mass region as that observed by the LHC detectors. That is, a particle with a mass of about 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV; this is about 130 times as heavy as the protons found in atomic nuclei).

The new data collection phase will settle the issue, researchers believe. Running the LHC at higher energies makes it more likely that Higgs particles, if they exist, will show themselves in the debris of the proton collisions. "The increase in energy is all about maximising the discovery potential of the LHC," said Cern Research Director Sergio Bertolucci. "And in that respect, 2012 looks set to be a vintage year for particle physics."

BBC News - LHC is back with big energy boost

 

[PoliticalChic]

BBC News - Higgs boson 'glimpsed' at Large Hadron Collider

the God particle? from Angels and Daemons?

God particle is a bit of a misnomer, since we currently believe the higgs particle is a result of a higgs field. The higgs field is what gives mass.

What gives it the name "God" particle is simply because it is the last as of yet undiscovered elementary particle that was predicted by Standard Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I would also like to note that it has been given a 2.3 sigma probability.

For those not scientifically literate, that means a 1/46 probability of random noise being the perpetrator of the signal, instead of the Higgs Boson. Further testing will raise the probability level.

No need to go into too much detail here either, except to say you'd need to get to the five-sigma stage to claim an actual discovery. . "The number of sub-three-sigma discoveries that have turned out to be wrong," says Princeton astrophysicist Michael Strauss, "is reasonably large."

Physicists Seek Higgs Boson 'God Particle' to Explain Mass - TIME

 

[PoliticalChic]

Or 2.174% chance of being false or a 97.826% of being real. Very high odds of being real.

What are we going to do with this if it is real?

Nonsense. You don't know what you are talking about.