Search for Higgs boson at an “exciting beginning”, Durham
University expert says The search for the Higgs boson is at a
"very exciting and positive beginning", according to a Durham
University physics expert. Scientists working on two experiments
- Atlas and CMS - at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN,
in Geneva, today reported seeing hints of the Higgs boson at a
similar mass, though they have not yet claimed a discovery. The
Higgs boson is a particle believed to give mass to other
particles and is thought to be the missing piece of the Standard
Model of physics, which explains how particles interact.
Scientists believe it could be key to our understanding of the
Universe. Commenting on the findings put forward by scientists
at the LHC, Professor Valentin Khoze, Director of the Institute
of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), Department of Physics,
Durham University, said: "This is really a very exciting
beginning, a very positive beginning of the story. "What today’s
findings tell us is that we hav