13:41 GMT, 1 July 2012 | The Daily Mail
Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday Higgs boson particle has been discovered
Scientists at Cern will announce that the elusive Higgs boson 'God Particle' has been found at a press
conference next week, it is believed.
Five leading theoretical physicists have been invited to the event on Wednesday - sparking speculation that
the particle has been discovered.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are expected to say they are 99.99 per cent certain it has been found
- which is known as 'four sigma' level.
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Physicists first predicted that the Higgs Boson subatomic particle exists 48 years ago. Peter Higgs, the
Edinburgh University emeritus professor of physics that the particle is named after, is among those who have
been called to the press conference in Switzerland.
The management at Cern want the two teams of scientists to reach the 'five sigma' level of certainty with their
results - so they are 99.99995 per cent sure - such is the significance of the results.
The Higgs boson is regarded as the key to understanding the universe. Physicists say its job is to give
the particles that make up atoms their mass.
Without this mass, these particles would zip though the cosmos at the speed of light, unable to bind together
to form the atoms that make up everything in the universe, from planets to people.
The collider, housed in an 18-mile tunnel buried deep underground near the French-Swiss border, smashes
beams of protons – sub-atomic particles – together at close to the speed of light, recreating the conditions
that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
If the physicists’ theory is correct, a few Higgs bosons should be created in every trillion collisions, before
rapidly decaying.
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This decay would leave behind a ‘footprint’ that would show up as a bump in their graphs. However, despite
1,600 trillion collisions being created in the tunnel - there have been fewer than 300 potential Higgs particles.
Now it is thought that two separate teams of scientists, who run independent experiments in secret from each
other, have both uncovered evidence of the particle.
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Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday Higgs boson particle has been discovered
Scientists at Cern will announce that the elusive Higgs boson 'God Particle' has been found at a press
conference next week, it is believed.
Five leading theoretical physicists have been invited to the event on Wednesday - sparking speculation that
the particle has been discovered.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are expected to say they are 99.99 per cent certain it has been found
- which is known as 'four sigma' level.
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Physicists first predicted that the Higgs Boson subatomic particle exists 48 years ago. Peter Higgs, the
Edinburgh University emeritus professor of physics that the particle is named after, is among those who have
been called to the press conference in Switzerland.
The management at Cern want the two teams of scientists to reach the 'five sigma' level of certainty with their
results - so they are 99.99995 per cent sure - such is the significance of the results.
The Higgs boson is regarded as the key to understanding the universe. Physicists say its job is to give
the particles that make up atoms their mass.
Without this mass, these particles would zip though the cosmos at the speed of light, unable to bind together
to form the atoms that make up everything in the universe, from planets to people.
The collider, housed in an 18-mile tunnel buried deep underground near the French-Swiss border, smashes
beams of protons – sub-atomic particles – together at close to the speed of light, recreating the conditions
that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
If the physicists’ theory is correct, a few Higgs bosons should be created in every trillion collisions, before
rapidly decaying.
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This decay would leave behind a ‘footprint’ that would show up as a bump in their graphs. However, despite
1,600 trillion collisions being created in the tunnel - there have been fewer than 300 potential Higgs particles.
Now it is thought that two separate teams of scientists, who run independent experiments in secret from each
other, have both uncovered evidence of the particle.
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