Los
Angeles Times: At the
Moriond conference in
Italy, groups of researchers from both CERN's Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) and Fermilab's now-closed Tevatron collider
presented more information about the data they have collected
in their search for the Higgs boson. Both groups' findings are
in line with CERN's
announcement
last July of the potential discovery of the particle associated
with the energy field that gives particles mass. Scientists'
reactions to the results continue to be mixed. Although the
discovery of the Higgs boson would satisfy a 40-year-old
prediction and complete the standard model of particle physics,
the standard model does not explain many unknown aspects of the
universe. If the data revealing the new particle had been
different, it could have opened the door for theories that
explain phenomena such as dark matter.
