Press Release 12-122 When Protons Collide: New Particle Observed
at Large Hadron Collider Search for Higgs boson reveals new
particle Typical candidate event from the Compact Muon Solenoid
Experiment in the search for the Higgs boson. Credit and Larger
Version July 4, 2012 Physicists on experiments at the Large
Hadron Collider have oberved a new particle that future analysis
may show to be the long-sought Higgs boson, the missing piece in
the Standard Model of particle physics. Last December, the CMS
and ATLAS experiments announced seeing tantalizing hints of a
new particle in their hunt for the Higgs. Since then, they have
more than doubled their collected data, which has led to today's
announcement. Involved in this international effort were more
than 1,700 scientists, engineers, technicians and graduate
students from U.S. institutions, who helped design, build and
operate the LHC accelerator and its four particle detectors.
Scientists on experiments at the LHC announced their latest
results at a seminar at