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New Particle Identified At LHC
First time accepted submitter m4ktub writes "A team of researchers working with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC have published an article in arXiv where they describe what is believed to be the first observation of a new particle: the boson Chi-b (3P). Professor Roger Jones, Head of the Lancaster ATLAS group, said 'While people are rightly interested in the Higgs boson, which we believe gives particles their mass and may have started to reveal itself, a lot of the mass of everyday objects comes from the strong interaction we are investigating using the Chi-b.'"
They won't find the Higgs Boson, because it doesn't exist. Mass is not a property of a single particle, but a side-effect of the interaction between a cluster of particles. Once you separate them, the effect of mass vanishes, so the current means of examination (observation in near-isolation) will result in us seeing nothing wherever we look.