Friday, 9 December 2011
Looks like we're getting somewhere.
On December 13, scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will make an important announcement. After the emergence of consistent information regarding two independent events at the ATLAS and CMS detectors, physicists at the sophisticated lab are excited because they may or may not have stumbled upon the elusive Higgs boson. Both events in the detectors showed a particle with mass corresponding to 125 billion electron volts that quickly decayed with a curious radiation pattern: both the signature of a Higgs boson particle. Perhaps the only reason—and an important one—is that the finding doesn't conform to the five-sigma statistical tolerance limit: reportedly, the result is 3.5 or 4.5 sigma, giving it a whopping 1-in-370 chance of being a false positive.
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