New Discovery in Higgs boson Race

Higgs boson is a scalar elementary particle, popularly referred to as the “god particle”. It is theorized in the Standard Model of particle physics that the Higgs boson acts as a field to impart mass on other elementary particles which regulate the weak force and discovery would help scientists differentiate these particles from those that regulate the electromagnetic force. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was meant to prove or disprove the existence of the Higgs boson. But since it came only in September 2008, technical difficulties have put it out of commission until next fall. This may open the door for Fermilab in Illinois to be the first ones to discover the Higgs boson. Previous studies by Fermilab and the Large Electron-Positron collider, predecessor of the LHC, found that the mass of the Higgs boson could lie between 114 and 185 billion electronvolts. New studies at Fermilab combined with eight years of data have found with 95% certainty that the mass of the Higgs boson cannot lie between 160 and 170 billion electronvolts. Higgs boson cannot be detected directly but only through a decay into muons, an electron-neutrino pair, or a jet of quarks. Now researchers at Fermilab are going back over their data in hopes of finding something in the 114-160 range of 170-185 range and discovering the Higgs boson. 

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