Higgs Signal Gains Strength

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 7, 2012 @11:26AM from the higgs-hulking-out dept.

ananyo writes "Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The new papers (here here and here) boost the case for December's announcement of a possible Higgs signal. Physicists working on the In the case of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, have been able to look at another possible kind of Higgs decay, and that allows them to boost their Higgs signal from 2.5 sigma to 3.1 sigma. Taken together with data from the other detector, ATLAS, Higgs' overall signal now unofficially stands at about 4.3 sigma."

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Cool. But can it be used as a grammar checker? by ScentCone · 2012-02-07 11:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

So, we can detect Higgs but we can't detect multiple typos in the damn summary? Really?

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Re:Net economic loss? by Tapewolf · 2012-02-07 12:04 · Score: 5, Insightful

How many millions of euro of taxpayer money have gone into this project, which will interest only a handful of scientists?
Approximately $9B, over 15 years, split between 20 nations. So on average, about $30M/year per country. Compared to Iraq or Afghanistan, that's a rounding error. Whatever may or may not come out of the Large Hadron Collider, I rather doubt either of those wars is going to show any ROI.