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Has the Higgs boson been seen in the Crystal Ball?

OCT 01, 1984

DOI: 10.1063/1.2915909

Bertram M. Schwarzschild

From the Crystal Ball detector at the DORIS electron–positron collider in Hamburg comes strong evidence of an 8.3‐GeV particle for which there appears to be no prosaic explanation. “If it’s real, it has to be very important,” says Gordon Kane (University of Michigan), expressing the widespread excitement that this new state has generated among high‐energy theorists.

© 1984. American Institute of Physics

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Volume 37, Number 10

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