Confirmation of Higgs Boson Discovery

The Higgs Boson has been a long sought after particle thought to be the origin of mass. CERN is now saying that yes, the particle discovery that had been made in July, is in fact the Higgs Boson. This is a huge breakthrough towards furthering the understanding of how the universe works. 

At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they find that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly the lightest of several bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model. Finding the answer to this question will take time.

 

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