#1 Race for 'God particle' heats up
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:03 pm
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[quote]Race for 'God particle' heats up
By James Morgan
Science reporter, BBC News, Chicago
Cern is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, its American rival claims.
Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best.
Cern's Lyn Evans admitted the accident which will halt the $7bn Large Hadron Collider until September may cost them one of the biggest prizes in physics.
The two rivals are trying to identify the "God Particle" - one of the fundamental particles of matter.
Finding the Higgs boson, whose existence has been predicted by theoretical physicists, might help to explain why matter has mass.
The chiefs of the world's most powerful atom smashers squared up at the the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Chicago.
Grand prix
Identifying the "God Particle" has been a target for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) ever since the LHC was first conceived in the early 1980s.
“ We are increasing data set very quickly. And they [Cern] are feeling the heat â€
[quote]Race for 'God particle' heats up
By James Morgan
Science reporter, BBC News, Chicago
Cern is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, its American rival claims.
Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best.
Cern's Lyn Evans admitted the accident which will halt the $7bn Large Hadron Collider until September may cost them one of the biggest prizes in physics.
The two rivals are trying to identify the "God Particle" - one of the fundamental particles of matter.
Finding the Higgs boson, whose existence has been predicted by theoretical physicists, might help to explain why matter has mass.
The chiefs of the world's most powerful atom smashers squared up at the the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Chicago.
Grand prix
Identifying the "God Particle" has been a target for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) ever since the LHC was first conceived in the early 1980s.
“ We are increasing data set very quickly. And they [Cern] are feeling the heat â€