CERN to announce tentative Higgs detection
DEC 08, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025754
BBC : Next Tuesday, representatives of the two principal detectors at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS and CMS, will announce the results so far of their search for the Higgs boson. Rumors are flying ahead of the announcement. According to the BBC’s Susan Watts, who interviewed CERN theorist John Ellis, the Higgs has shown up in both detectors at an energy between 120 and 125 GeV. What is not clear yet is the statistical significance. The evident joy that Watts witnessed at CERN, combined with the equally evident caution, suggests a significance that is encouraging but not conclusive.
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