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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Re:Net economic loss? by rubycodez · 2012-02-07 11:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

positron emissions have medical application http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography

strangely enough, application using one particle, the anti-neutrino, is in the works for reactor monitoring.

muons might be used to catalyze fusion or reduce lifespan of nuclear waste (with fusion products of catalyzed reaction

you are foolish, how can we engineer with the universe's components if we don't learn all we can about them?