The results announced from CERN on December 13 by the two teams — ATLAS and CMC — do not provide definite and conclusive evidence of the presence of the elusive Higgs boson, but they have collected sufficient data that is consistent with the possible appearance of the God particle.
According to theorists some subatomic particles gain mass by interacting with the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is the only undiscovered part of the Standard Model of physics, which describes the basic building blocks of matter and their interactions.
The combined results presented last month by the two teams provided no room for the Higgs boson to hide in. The results had narrowed down the mass region where the Higgs particle is most likely to be — between 114 GeV and 141 GeV (gigaelectoron volt).
The latest results have further narrowed the mass range — 115-130 GeV range in the case of ATLAS, and 117-127 GeV by CMC. “We have not collected enough evidence for a discovery. There is an excess of events compatible with the hypothesis that it could be a Higgs,” Guido Tonelli, spokesman for CMC was quoted as saying in Nature. But more confirmatory data is required before its presence can be proved.
Possible mass
According to the journal, if supported by further data, the results suggest a Higgs particle with a mass of about 125 GeV.
This is because the ATLAS results are “consistent with a 125-126 GeV Higgs at a statistical level of at most 3.6 standard deviation, while the CMC team found 124 GeV signal of at most 2.6 standard deviation,” Nature states.
The ATLAS results are well above a standard deviation of 3 which is considered as evidence that a particular particle may exist.
A statistical significance of 5 standard deviations is considered as proof of a particle's existence.
The results are based on nearly 500 trillion high energy proton-proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
So, by the end of 2012, nearly four times the current data will have been generated. Hence definite answers should be available in a year's time.
But for now there is cautious optimism, and the search for the elusive particle has gained greater momentum.
Keywords: CERN, god particle, Higgs boson theory, Large Hadron Collider
Everyone wants to know where they are from.And many have the questions about the god and nature i hope this "Higgs boson"will give fine answer for all question.
Lets hope that some conclusive result comes out of the experiments at LHC which may be in favour of the "Higgs particles" or may not be.But , I don't think their is from a black hole which may be formed because even if it is formed it would be for a very very small time (may be for a nano seconds time interval). So,I don't think nothing will happen. If Higgs particles is found then all these years of hard work of many people will be fruitful.
We should encourage and appreciate what the scientists are doing at CERN. We should not put beliefs and religions to criticise the pgrogramme. What if they find the God particle finally with the earth remaining in tact? Will we discard religion then? No wonder the religious fundamentalists oppose any attempt to reveal the truth.
@Soriappan: These experiments are done to understand how our reality works and not to prove or disprove the existence of god. The 'crazies' belong to the group of people who have essentially created our modern world including the computer and internet you have used for your comment. These scientific experiments are critical our human knowledge. Also, it is quite arrogant to claim that one already knows that god exists which is clearly not the case.
Not being superstitious. The Mayans said the world will end in 2012. These guys are tampering with sub-atomic particles. One scientist even claim that the chances of black Hole being created is very very negligible. Well the probability that it can happen itself makes it a dangerous experiments. They also speak of creating 'strangelets' matter that will have properties hitherto unknown. If tennis a ball sized Uranium can cause such a huge release of energy do not know what kind of energy will be unleashed if we keep tampering with mother nature so that these crazies can 'prove' what is already known which is THAT GOD exists.
The Higgs Boson is the result of our understanding of the fundamental forces of Nature. Its existence if proved will reiterate our beliefs in the Standard model. Hope 2012 will unlock this secret!
Let me tell you why it is not possible for Higgs boson to be there, because there cannot be any fields in a realistic understanding of the natural world. Fields were devised in the times of Maxwell to comprehend pre quantum phenomena. Every event has to have a particle/wave explanation, no field would fill in the details where a postulation is weak. It's a non quantum sub ev world out there. Gravitation and mass are due to a very different form of particle or particles, no resemblance with Higgs. Look for DCE research in Sweden, if you want to see the shape of the things to come. Eventually STR will be marginalized and space and mass will be seen as interchangeable.Then you cannot even remove liquid helium from the LHC tunnel and talk of removing water from the pond, then your pond is full of magnetic fields and the distortions that the Earth's gravitation brings to the surrounding space. The physical world is much more complex than a number of particles put together like bricks to define it's existence. A copper atom sized Higgs boson is as laughable as the Earth centred universe of the Ptolemic construct. The Church and its professional scientists spent centuries to not only defend it but to take it to greater mathematical heights before finally crashing. Finally, faster than light Neutrinoes and Higgs both cannot coexist -- either one has to be wrong. It's DCE research and superluminal speed which has the potential of breaking current scientific barriers, rather than finding a nebulous statistical dual peak for a Higgs, which well could be due to many other anomalies, one that LHC could not decipher is that of the UFOs.
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