Tantalising Hints to the discovery of "Higg's Boson"(God particle)!
The first biggest success of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of European giants CERN comes; but the physicists will have to hold their breathe a little while longer! Two teams of scientists, while shifiting the debris from high-energy proton collisions, recorded "tantalising hints" of a long sought subatomic particle know as Higg's Boson, or the "God particle". The physicists believe that The existence of Higg's Boson is a key to explaining why there is mass in the Universe and ultimately, unfold the the much-debated BIG-BANG !
One team at LHC , Atlas, named after their particle-detector; recorded the weight of the putative particle as about 125 billion electron volts, about 125 times heavier than a proton and 5,00,000 times heavier than an electron. The other team, CMS(Compact Muon Solenoid) founds bumps in their detector corresponding to a mass of about 126 billion electron volts.
If the particle does exist at all, it must lie in within the range of 115-127 billion electron volts, thus increasing the possibilties. Over the last 20 years, suspicious bumps have come and gone that might have been Higg's Boson. But the fact that two rival teams using two different manmoth particle detectors had recorded similar results brings a sigh of relief. Physicists around the world expect to have enough data to make the final call by summer2012! Such a discovery would rank in important breakthroughs of the last century, going back to Einstein's first formulation of quantum physics. So, fasten up your seat belts CEans....The next few months are going to be really exiting!
One team at LHC , Atlas, named after their particle-detector; recorded the weight of the putative particle as about 125 billion electron volts, about 125 times heavier than a proton and 5,00,000 times heavier than an electron. The other team, CMS(Compact Muon Solenoid) founds bumps in their detector corresponding to a mass of about 126 billion electron volts.
If the particle does exist at all, it must lie in within the range of 115-127 billion electron volts, thus increasing the possibilties. Over the last 20 years, suspicious bumps have come and gone that might have been Higg's Boson. But the fact that two rival teams using two different manmoth particle detectors had recorded similar results brings a sigh of relief. Physicists around the world expect to have enough data to make the final call by summer2012! Such a discovery would rank in important breakthroughs of the last century, going back to Einstein's first formulation of quantum physics. So, fasten up your seat belts CEans....The next few months are going to be really exiting!
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Kaustubh KatdareOur author covered it on VoiCE: #-Link-Snipped-# . Looks like the world is heading to something very interesting. 😀 -
Ramani AswathTo
Today' Indian Expres carried a photograph of the tracing of particles from this expeiment. Looks surprisingly like Visnu's Chakra. I am sure the religious lot will go to town with that.The_Big_KOur author covered it on VoiCE: #-Link-Snipped-# . Looks like the world is heading to something very interesting. 😀 -
CE DesignerReally! Can you post an online pic?
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Ramani Aswath
I tried. Unfortunately, only the print edition carries the photograph.CE DesignerReally! Can you post an online pic? -
Ramani AswathIs it likely that all the particles there are have been found? Nothing more to find?
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