+ - Final analysis suggests Tevatron saw hint of the Higgs->
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ananyo writes "A hint of the Higgs boson, the missing piece in the standard model of particle physics, has been found in data collected by the Tevatron, the now-shuttered US particle collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois (http://www.nature.com/news/boost-for-higgs-from-tevatron-data-1.10167).
While not statistically significant enough in themselves to count as a 'discovery', the indications announced on 7 March at the Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, are consistent with 2011 reports (http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/2253211/higgs-signal-gains-strength) of a possible standard model Higgs particle with a mass of around 125 GeV from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The data is more direct evidence of the Higgs than the constraints on its mass offered by the precise W boson mass measurement (http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/05/2030213/precise-w-boson-mass-measurement-helps-lead-the-way-to-the-higgs-boson) reported on Monday.
On a sad note, the find vindicates Tevatron scientists who campaigned unsuccessfully to extend the collider's run. The request was turned down by the Department of Energy but this last hurrah suggests that Tevatron might indeed have found the Higgs ahead of CERN's Large Hadron Collider if they'd secured the funding required. The Teavtron is currently being raided for parts (http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/22/1554241/the-recycling-of-the-tevatron)."
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While not statistically significant enough in themselves to count as a 'discovery', the indications announced on 7 March at the Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, are consistent with 2011 reports (http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/2253211/higgs-signal-gains-strength) of a possible standard model Higgs particle with a mass of around 125 GeV from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The data is more direct evidence of the Higgs than the constraints on its mass offered by the precise W boson mass measurement (http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/05/2030213/precise-w-boson-mass-measurement-helps-lead-the-way-to-the-higgs-boson) reported on Monday.
On a sad note, the find vindicates Tevatron scientists who campaigned unsuccessfully to extend the collider's run. The request was turned down by the Department of Energy but this last hurrah suggests that Tevatron might indeed have found the Higgs ahead of CERN's Large Hadron Collider if they'd secured the funding required. The Teavtron is currently being raided for parts (http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/22/1554241/the-recycling-of-the-tevatron)."
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