Researchers from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN yesterday (4 July 2012), confirmed that they have found a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs Boson. Thanks to the results coming from the two experiments, ATLAS and CMS, these preliminary findings appear to show a dramatic 5 sigma signal (reflecting the high level of certainty that the findings are not due to chance). They have said that if this is indeed a new particle, then it must be a boson and it would be the heaviest such particle ever found.
Andy Parker is the Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Physics (the Cavendish Laboratory). His current research interests involve experiments to reveal new physics such as extra space dimensions, quantum-sized black holes, and supersymmetry. He is a founder of the ATLAS experiment for the LHC, and for 6 years he was the project leader for the ATLAS Inner Detector.
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Image: Simulated production of a Higgs event in ATLAS Image credit: CERN. Copyright retained by CERN.
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Particle consistent with Higgs Boson found
5 July 2012
Andy Parker, Professor of High Energy Physics at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, sheds light on yesterday’s announcement and ‘what next’.