Scientists find signs of Higgs boson

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Scientists said on Tuesday that they found signs of the Higgs boson particle.

14 December,2011 05:47 am

The elementary sub-atomic particle is believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang.The Higgs boson is thought to have emerged from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago and have brought much of the rest of the flying debris together to form galaxies, stars and planets.But until now, in the four decades since it was first posited, no one has convincingly claimed to have glimpsed the Higgs Boson.Some leading scientists, including Stephen Hawking, doubt that the tiny piece of matter that would be visible only as a trace on a computer screen is out there at all.But most scientists involved in sifting through vast amounts of data produced in multi-trillions of particle impacts in CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the past 20 months seem sure that it is, in one form or another.Researchers at the CERN physics research centre near Geneva revealed their findings to a packed seminar.They have tried to find traces of the elusive boson by smashing particles together at near light-speed at the centres Large Hadron Collider.The experiments generated such excitement by independently reaching very similar conclusions. But the scientists were quick to warn that their results have not yet reached the level of certainty that would let them claim a discovery.The results are based on the analysis of data, sufficient to make significant progress in the search, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the elusive Higgs.