Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Is it Higgs or not: Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on Wednesday
Fine, there is something there — a resonance
Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on Wednesday
“Without a doubt, we have a discovery,” says one member of the team working on the ATLAS experiment, who wished to remain anonymous. Physicists have maintained that they will not announce the discovery of the Higgs until the signal surpasses 5 sigma, meaning that it has just a 0.00006% chance of being wrong. The ATLAS and CMS experiments are each seeing signals between 4.5 and 5 sigma, just a whisker away from a solid discovery claim. The results are also consistent with an analysis from the mothballed Tevatron collider, which was presented today at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.
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Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on Wednesday
“Without a doubt, we have a discovery,” says one member of the team working on the ATLAS experiment, who wished to remain anonymous. Physicists have maintained that they will not announce the discovery of the Higgs until the signal surpasses 5 sigma, meaning that it has just a 0.00006% chance of being wrong. The ATLAS and CMS experiments are each seeing signals between 4.5 and 5 sigma, just a whisker away from a solid discovery claim. The results are also consistent with an analysis from the mothballed Tevatron collider, which was presented today at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.
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