{"id":12710,"date":"2012-07-04T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2012-07-04T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T16:41:30","slug":"higgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/higgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Higgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/press\/PressReleases\/Releases2012\/PR17.12E.html\">CERN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year\u2019s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage,\u201d said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, \u201cbut a little more time is needed to prepare these results for publication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results are preliminary but the 5 sigma signal at around 125 GeV we\u2019re seeing is dramatic. This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it\u2019s the heaviest boson ever found,\u201d said CMS experiment spokesperson Joe Incandela. \u201cThe implications are very significant and it is precisely for this <a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/press\/PressReleases\/Releases2012\/PR17.12E.html\">CERN<\/a>reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to get excited by these results,\u201d said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci. \u201c We stated last year that in 2012 we would either find a new Higgs-like particle or exclude the existence of the Standard Model Higgs. With all the necessary caution, it looks to me that we are at a branching point: the observation of this new particle indicates the path for the future towards a more detailed understanding of what we\u2019re seeing in the data.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/press\/PressReleases\/Releases2012\/PR17.12E.html\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CERN: CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year\u2019s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/higgs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Higgs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5fhV1-higgs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}