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Higgs boson discovery confirmed

Posted on: March 14, 2013 - 2:07pm

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Higgs boson discovery confirmed

By Emily Chung, CBC News
Posted: Mar 14, 2013 6:47 AM ET
Last Updated: Mar 14, 2013 11:59 AM ET

A new subatomic particle discovered at the world's most powerful particle accelerator is indeed a much sought-after Higgs boson, scientists confirmed Thursday.

"To me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," said Joe Incandela, spokesperson for CMS, in a statement. CMS is one of the two experimental efforts at the Large Hadron Collider near the French-Swiss border that have been hunting for the elusive particle.

The statement accompanied the release of the latest results from both CMS and ATLAS, the LHC's other Higgs boson-hunting experiment, at the Moriond physics conference in the Italy.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/14/wrd-science-higgs-boson-particle-discovery.html

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Posted on: March 14, 2013 - 2:09pm #1

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However, Higgs bosons also exist in some other models of physics that have been proposed, and it is not yet possible to rule out one of the lightest Higgs bosons that exist in a theory called supersymmetry, said Richard Teuscher, the deputy spokesperson for the Canadian scientists involved in ATLAS. Supersymmetry allows for the existence of multiple Higgs bosons, while the Standard Model allows for only one.

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