On Dec 13, 12:30 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> GENEVA - Scientists hunting for an elusive sub-atomic particle say
> they've found "intriguing hints" that it exists, narrowing down the
> search for what is believed to be a basic building block of the
> universe.
>
> The Higgs boson — popularly referred to as the "God particle" — is
> more likely to be found in the lower mass or energy ranges of the
> massive atom smasher being used to track it down, physicists from two
> independent research teams said Tuesday.
>
> The researchers were careful to note they do not have enough data yet
> to definitively say the particle exists, but also said the latest data
> is strong enough that the question could be answered one way or
> another by next year.
>
> Researchers hope that the particle, if it exists, can help explain
> many mysteries of the universe. British physicist Peter Higgs, a CND
> activist while in London and later in Edinburgh, but resigned his
> membership when the group extended its remit from campaigning against
> nuclear weapons to campaigning against nuclear power too. He was a
> Greenpeace member until the group opposed genetically modified
> organisms.
>
> Higgs and others theorized the particle's existence more than 40 years
> ago to explain why atoms, and everything else in the universe, have
> weight.
>
> Note: Higgs was awarded the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics, but refused to
> fly to Jerusalem to receive the award because it was a state occasion
> attended by the then President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, who Higgs is
> opposed to because of Israel's actions in Palestine.
>
> Both of the research teams are involved with CERN, the European
> Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva. CERN oversees the $10-
> billion Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border, a 17-mile
> tunnel where high energy beams of protons are sent crashing into each
> other at incredible speeds.
>
> Fabiola Gianotti, an Italian physicist who heads the team running the
> so-called ATLAS experiment, said "the hottest region" is in lower
> energy ranges of the collider. She said there are indications of the
> Higgs' existence and that with enough data it could be unambiguously
> discovered or ruled out next year.
>
> Several mass or energy ranges within the atom smasher are now excluded
> to a "95% confidence level," Gianotti told other physicists at CERN.
>
> Afterward, Guido Tonelli, lead physicist for the team running what's
> called the CMS experiment, outlined findings similar to those of the
> ATLAS team, saying the particle is most likely found "in the low mass
> region" of the collider.
>
> Rolf Heuer, director of the European particle physics laboratory near
> Geneva, said in conclusion that "the window for the Higgs mass gets
> smaller and smaller." "But be careful — it's intriguing hints," he
> said. "We have not found it yet, we have not excluded it yet."
> Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
> -------
> some men's search for a god never ends ... poor fellers
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