(episk ordvits for teh win)

I alla fall,
Just nu håller CERN en presskonferens ATLAS och CMS redogör för var de står i sina sökandet efter den bildskygge Higgsbosonen.

Rykten har gjort gällande att de ska ha fått någon sorts utslag, men pressreleasen släpps först vid 15:30.

Det finns en stream här, men det är en del mumbojumbo och så laggar den infernaliskt mycket (antagligen för att hela världen vill veta).

Tråden uppdateras allteftersom.

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Uppdaterat fr.o.m 4/7 2012:
Preliminära data visar på Higgsbosonen

Det här är så äckligt sexigt att jag går sönder.

RELATERAT!

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Låter som en ung, blyg man från någon svensk byhåla som det ändå av någon anledning finns ett allmänintresse kring.

Jämför: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/sa-ska-ockelbosonen-bli-ful...

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MEN SVARTA HÅL KOMMER ATT SKAPAS OCH VI BLIR SLUKADE ÅH NEJ SÅ HEMSKT

Onekligen spännande detta.

De rundar av presentationen nu. Tydligen, som dammskog sade, så finns det antydningar av bosonen, men det går inte att säga med önskad statistisk säkerhet att det inte är bakgrundsstörningar.

2 oberoende experimentgrupper har ungeför kommit fram till samma resultat och förväntar sig få resultat under 2012.

"We have restricted the most likely mass region for the Higgs boson to 116-130 GeV, and over the last few weeks we have started to see an intriguing excess of events in the mass range around 125 GeV," explained ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti."This excess may be due to a fluctuation, but it could also be something more interesting. We cannot conclude anything at this stage. We need more study and more data. Given the outstanding performance of the LHC this year, we will not need to wait long for enough data and can look forward to resolving this puzzle in 2012."

"We cannot exclude the presence of the Standard Model Higgs between 115 and 127 GeV because of a modest excess of events in this mass region that appears, quite consistently, in five independent channels," explained CMS experiment Spokesperson, Guido Tonelli. "The excess is most compatible with a Standard Model Higgs in the vicinity of 124 GeV and below but the statistical significance is not large enough to say anything conclusive. As of today what we see is consistent either with a background fluctuation or with the presence of the boson. Refined analyses and additional data delivered in 2012 by this magnificent machine will definitely give an answer."

Over the coming months, both experiments will be further refining their analyses in time for the winter particle physics conferences in March. However, a definitive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs will require more data, and is not likely until later in 2012.

The Standard Model is the theory that physicists use to describe the behaviour of fundamental particles and the forces that act between them. It describes the ordinary matter from which we, and everything visible in the Universe, are made extremely well. Nevertheless, the Standard Model does not describe the 96% of the Universe that is invisible. One of the main goals of the LHC research programme is to go beyond the Standard Model, and the Higgs boson could be the key.

A Standard Model Higgs boson would confirm a theory first put forward in the 1960s, but there are other possible forms the Higgs boson could take, linked to theories that go beyond the Standard Model. A Standard Model Higgs could still point the way to new physics, through subtleties in its behaviour that would only emerge after studying a large number of Higgs particle decays. A non-Standard Model Higgs, currently beyond the reach of the LHC experiments with data so far recorded, would immediately open the door to new physics, whereas the absence of a Standard Model Higgs would point strongly to new physics at the LHC's full design energy, set to be achieved after 2014. Whether ATLAS and CMS show over the coming months that the Standard Model Higgs boson exists or not, the LHC programme is opening the way to new physics.

Jag vet inte om man kunde fått ett mer ointressant resultat än "kanske". Både "ja" och "nej" hade varit otroligt mer spännande. Nåja, vi är närmare något av dem iaf.

Error: Human is dead, mismatch.

(Props till alla som fattar den här referensen!)

Ser ut som vi får vänta till slutet av månaden innan alla data är analyserade.

äh :(