Physicists Increasingly Confident They've Found the Higgs Boson

Physicists Increasingly Confident They've Found the Higgs Boson

Data analysis suggests that the "Higgs-like" particle produced by the Large Hadron Collider in July, 2012 is indeed a Higgs boson.

Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they find that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that

New data unveiled on Thursday strengthens the belief that a subatomic particle discovered last year is the elusive Higgs boson, European physicists said. Analysis of two characteristics, teased from experiments at the world's

It is a subatomic point where hard science meets myth and mystery, so much about the Higgs boson gets mangled in the telling. It is not, as is sometimes claimed, the sole source of matter's heft â€" Einstein taught us that mass and energy are two sides

Physicists announced this week that they are more confident than ever that the "Higgs-like" particle discovered last year is actually the long-sought Higgs bosonâ€"the particle crucial for understanding why objects in the universe have mass. The