The much anticipated announcement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where scientists are struggling to find the Higgs Boson particle is out now. The scientists at the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), announced that they had narrowed the list of possible hiding spots for the Higgs Boson, also called as God particle. They also said that they got the first tantalizing hints of the particle; however, it’s not the whole result of the experiment.
Higgs Boson, which is named after Peter Higgs, an Edinburgh University Physicist, is a crucial particle to understand the origin of mass. It’s an unstable particle, which would decay into smaller particles after the collision of proton beams. Those small particles are considered as the building blocks of the universe. So, finding this particle explains the early development and origin of the universe.
Both the teams, which are searching for the Higgs Boson at the LHC, said that they had found hints which point towards a Higgs boson with a mass between 124 and 126 giga electron volts (GeV). One of the two teams, working on the ATLAS detector had revealed that there was only a one percent likelihood that their results occurred by chance rather than reflecting a real effect, while the other team CMS quoted a figure of about five percent. They added saying that they saw a small bump around the same mass as the ATLAS team, but it was intriguing. Since the two teams found the same thing the scientists are a bit happy and satisfied with their experiments.
However, none of the teams produced conclusive proof of the particle’s existence, but still they are confident that the findings could be confirmed in the following years.