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New particle found, could unravel secret of
universe
Wednesday July 04, 2012 05:53:02 PM,
IANS
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Geneva: Science Wednesday moved one step closer to unlocking the secrets
of the universe with a new particle that could be the elusive
Higgs boson, the basic building block of the cosmos.
"We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature," said
Rolf Heuer, the director general of CERN (the European
Organization for Nuclear Research) said in Geneva.
"The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens
the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics,
which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely
to shed light on other mysteries of our universe," Heuer was
quoted as saying.
The action took place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where
scientists have been tirelessly engaged in finding how the
universe that we live in started with a Big Bang.
The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt for explaining
how matter attains its mass, reported BBC.
The announcement of the results at CERN, home of the LHC in
Geneva, was met with loud applause and cheers.
"The results are preliminary but the 5 sigma signal at around 125
GeV we're seeing is dramatic. This is indeed a new particle. We
know it must be a boson and it's the heaviest boson ever found,"
said CMS experiment spokesperson Joe Incandela. CMS is one of the
teams involved in the experiment.
CERN quoted Incandela as saying that the "implications are very
significant and
it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent
in
all of our studies and cross-checks".
Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, wiped a tear as the
presentations got over.
"I would like to add my congratulations to everyone involved in
this achievement," said.
"It's really an incredible thing that it's happened in my
lifetime."
The scientists claim to have seen a "bump" in their data
corresponding to a particle weighing in at 125.3 gigaelectronvolts
(GeV) - about 133 times heavier than the proton at the heart of
every atom.
Six theoreticians, including Peter Higgs, first proposed the Higgs
in 1964.
CNN explained that the sub-atomic particle is believed to be at
the base of all mass, the basic building block of the universe.
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