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New experiments constrain Higgs mass

New experiments constrain Higgs mass (w/Videos)

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created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The territory where the Higgs boson may be found continues to shrink. The latest analysis of data from the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab now ...


In search of a light Higgs boson

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created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (68) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- “It's pretty clear that the standard model of physics is not enough to explain all the phenomena in nature,” Tomasz Skwarnicki tells PhysOrg.com. “Through looking at a variety of phenomena – one of them b ...


The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear

The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear

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created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 2

The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's ...


ZZ Events

Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z

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created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (40) | comments 5

Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the ...


Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a ...


Higgs Mass Exclusion Plot

Tevatron experiments double-team Higgs boson

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created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (41) | comments 11

Scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab have combined Tevatron data from the two experiments to advance the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson. Their ...


Physics world shifts focus to Switzerland

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created Sep 06, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists at Fermilab in Illinois are racing to find the elusive Higgs boson particle before a giant new Swiss lab opens next year.


Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark

Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The discovery ...


LHC: enormous magnet segment lowered down a shaft

A front-row seat at this summer's physics extravaganza

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created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 4

Nearly 20 years in the making, the largest particle accelerator in the world will start running in Switzerland this summer, offering scientists a glimpse of particles that have never been seen before.


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 29

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...


Tevatron collider yields new results on subatomic matter, forces

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created Apr 17, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Scientists of the CDF and DZero experiments at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory presented on April 15 at the annual April meeting of the American Physical Society the latest results of intriguing ...


Precision measurement of W-boson mass suggests a lighter Higgs particle

Precision measurement of W-boson mass suggests a lighter Higgs particle

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created Jan 08, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today the world's most precise measurement by a single experiment of the mass of the W boson, ...


Is the Vacuum Empty? -- the Higgs Field and the Dark Energy

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created May 10, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 2

The problems in understanding the true nature of the “vacuum” of space were discussed by theoretical physicist Alvaro de Rújula from CERN (the European Council for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, and a professor ...


Michigan integral to world's largest physics experiment

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created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission. CERN's epic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project currently involves 25 ...


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3 Questions: Steven Nahn on the elusive Higgs boson

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (40) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Troubles at the Large Hadron Collider have led some physicists to suggest the Higgs boson is sabotaging its own discovery. Nahn explains why he disagrees.