Particle looking more like Higgs boson - From: AFP - March 07,
2013 THE subatomic particle whose discovery was announced amid
much fanfare last year, is looking "more and more" like it could
be the elusive Higgs boson. But in the latest update, physicists
told a conference in La Thuile, Italy, that more analysis is
needed before a definitive statement can be made. Key to a
positive identification of the particle is a detailed analysis
of its properties and how it interacts with other particles, the
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) explained in a
statement. Since scientists' announcement last July that they
had found a particle likely to be the Higgs, much data has been
analysed, and its properties are becoming clearer. It is
exciting for scientists because it could explain why matter has
mass. One property that will allow several teams researching the
particle to declare whether or not it is a Higgs, is called
spin. A Higgs must have spin-zero. "All the analysis conducted
so far strongly indi