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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCERN to give update on Higgs search as curtain raiser to ICHEP conference
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CERN to give update on Higgs search as curtain raiser to ICHEP conference
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Geneva, 22 June 2012. CERN1 will hold a scientific seminar at 9:00CEST on 4 July to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson. At this seminar, coming on the eve of this years major particle physics conference, ICHEP, in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will deliver the preliminary results of their 2012 data analysis.
Data taking for ICHEP concluded on Monday 18 June after a very successful first period of LHC running in 2012, said CERNs Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. Im very much looking forward to seeing what the data reveals.
The 2012 LHC run schedule was designed to deliver the maximum possible quantity of data to the experiments before the ICHEP conference, and with more data delivered between April and June 2012 than in the whole 2011 run, the strategy has been a success. Furthermore, the experiments have been refining their analysis techniques to improve their efficiency in picking out Higgs-like events from the millions of collisions occurring every second. This means that their sensitivity to new phenomena has significantly increased for both years data sets. The crunching of all this data has been done by the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, which has exceeded its design specifications to handle the unprecedented volume of data and computing.
We now have more than double the data we had last year, said CERN Director for Research and Computing, Sergio Bertolucci, that should be enough to see whether the trends we were seeing in the 2011 data are still there, or whether theyve gone away. Its a very exciting time.
If and when a new particle is discovered, ATLAS and CMS will need time to ascertain whether it is the long sought Higgs boson, the last missing ingredient of the Standard Model of particle physics, or whether it is a more exotic form of the boson that could open the door to new physics.
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CERN to give update on Higgs search as curtain raiser to ICHEP conference (Original Post)
GreatCaesarsGhost
Jun 2012
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handmade34
(22,756 posts)1. excellent segment on "Science Friday"
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)3. It was excellent
that's what motivated me to post the CERN release.
girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)2. They have acheived 5 sigma for the Higgs signal @125 GeV.
We are stuck with Standard Model for the foreseeable future.