Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Where is the Higgs Boson?

But the Higgs boson never appeared. Running continually at an unprecedented energy level of seven trillion electron volts since March 31, 2010, the LHC has been amassing petabytes of data that are being analyzed by a grid of interlinked computers worldwide in search of the missing boson. And yesterday, August 22, at the Biennial International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, the bombshell was dropped: CERN scientists declared that over the entire range of energy the Collider had explored—from 145 to 466 billion electron volts—the Higgs boson is excluded as a possibility with a 95% probability. Scientific American

I will convene the staff here at Imagisoft and see if we can rework the theory. I suspect the problem is related to the Gibbs phenomena in a quantized world which limits the sample rate.

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