On July 4th, 2012 Joe Incarndella and Fabiola Gianotti thrilled an auditorium filled with CERN employees in Geneva Switzerland when they announced that, during their high power particle collision experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, they had found particles that fit the profile of the elusive Higgs-boson particle. The particle is also known as the God particle because of its profound importance in Quantum Mechanics and possibly the Big Bang. The discovery is extremely profound mostly for the world of physics. The website gaurdian.co.uk described the discovery very eloquently “This situation is extreme enough for greats such as Einstein and Hawking to invoke God.”
The newly glimpsed Higgs particle could essentially re-write the model of particle physics that was previously predicted because the signature of the particles that were detected at the LHC didn’t exactly resemble what was
predicted by the standard model of particle physics. Scientists believe that this new particle may, in fact, be more exotic and possibly a new particle member of a more complete model of our universe that includes the little understood dark matter and gravity . This discovery may be the end of the standard model’s supremacy.
When Incarndella and Gianotti presented their particle discovery, they reported that they had seen particles that fit the profile of Higgs particles with masses of 125 + 126 Giga electron volts. The physicists both admitted that there was only a five in ten million chance that their readings could have been created by background processes in the detector. The Director General of CERN was heard saying “I think we have it.” The Higgs-boson has a key role to play in the nature of matter itself and it has never been seen. It has been very elusive. What is the Higgs-boson? After the Big Bang, theory says that particles had no mass but after passing through a Higgs field they were given mass.
The newly glimpsed Higgs particle could essentially re-write the model of particle physics that was previously predicted because the signature of the particles that were detected at the LHC didn’t exactly resemble what was
predicted by the standard model of particle physics. Scientists believe that this new particle may, in fact, be more exotic and possibly a new particle member of a more complete model of our universe that includes the little understood dark matter and gravity . This discovery may be the end of the standard model’s supremacy.
When Incarndella and Gianotti presented their particle discovery, they reported that they had seen particles that fit the profile of Higgs particles with masses of 125 + 126 Giga electron volts. The physicists both admitted that there was only a five in ten million chance that their readings could have been created by background processes in the detector. The Director General of CERN was heard saying “I think we have it.” The Higgs-boson has a key role to play in the nature of matter itself and it has never been seen. It has been very elusive. What is the Higgs-boson? After the Big Bang, theory says that particles had no mass but after passing through a Higgs field they were given mass.
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