William Atkins
Saturday, 14 March 2009 20:22
Science -
Energy
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The spokesperson for the CDF experiment, Rob Roser, stated,
“A particle collision at the Tevatron collider can produce a Higgs boson in many different ways, and the Higgs particle can then decay into various particles. Each experiment examines more and more possibilities. Combining all of them, we hope to see a first hint of the Higgs particle.”
The Fermilab researchers presented their new conclusions at eh annual conference on
Electroweak Physics and Unified Theries (also called Rencontres de Moriond), which was held March 7 to 14, 2009, in La Thuile, Italy.
Dennis Kovar, who is the associate director at the Office of Science for High Energy Physics (U.S. Department of Energy) states,
“The outstanding performance of the Tevatron and CDF and DZero together have produced this important result. We're looking forward to further Tevatron constraints on the Higgs mass." [Fermilab]
The Higgs boson, which is sometimes called “The God Particle,” is thought by scientists to be the particle that may likely why elementary particles have mass, while other particles do not possess mass.
The
Standard Model particle physics theory predicts that the Higgs boson exists, although we have not been able to find it yet. The search continues at Fermilab, CERN’s LHC, and other such particle accelerators/colliders around the world.
The theory tries to explain three (electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force) of the
four known fundamental forces of nature (gravitational force, electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force) and the elementary particles that are involved in these forces.
Page thee explains the four forces of nature, along with providing additional information on the Fermilab results.
