ShareCERN’s LHC on a hunt for Higgs boson
Two experiments led at CERN, ATLAS and CMS, attempt to discover data hinting at the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson, a particle which is crucial to the Standard Model in physics.
Two experiments led at CERN, ATLAS and CMS, attempt to discover data hinting at the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson, a particle which is crucial to the Standard Model in physics.
In December 2011, CERN announced that data collected by both experiments are compatible with a Higgs boson signal and that if the boson exists, its mass would be around 124-126 GeV.
It will require much more data to draw any definitive conclusion on the existence of the Standard Model Higgs, but whatever the outcome, these experiments may have a profound impact on our understanding of matter.
Picture: Four muons (red tracks) from a proton-proton collision in CERN’s experiment ATLAS, this type of event is a possible signature for Higgs particle production
In December 2011, CERN announced that data collected by both experiments are compatible with a Higgs boson signal and that if the boson exists, its mass would be around 124-126 GeV.
It will require much more data to draw any definitive conclusion on the existence of the Standard Model Higgs, but whatever the outcome, these experiments may have a profound impact on our understanding of matter.
Picture: Four muons (red tracks) from a proton-proton collision in CERN’s experiment ATLAS, this type of event is a possible signature for Higgs particle production