The Minority Report

Continuing my unexpected coverage of the folks at Fermilab this week, Fermilab last week and a Higgs Boson mention a month ago, I bring you the latest in the hunt for everyone’s favorite shy particle…the Higgs Boson.

Scientists knew from previous measurements that the Higgs boson must weigh between 114 and 185 GeV/c2–the units that scientists use to measure the mass of particles. The new Fermilab result carves out a section in the middle of this range: the Higgs boson cannot have a mass in between 160 and 170 GeV/c2–if it exists at all.
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The Higgs particle is the last missing piece in the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model of particles and their interactions. According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson explains why some elementary particles have mass and others do not. Thousands of measurements at particle experiments around the world have led to the Standard Model over the last forty years, and precision measurements have confirmed it again and again. However, the Higgs particle–a keystone–keeps eluding detection.
symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Higgs territory continues to shrink

Watch a 2-minute video of Barbara Alvarez giving a tour of the CDF experiment and its search for the Higgs particle:

Am I the only one that wants to collide my proton into her anti-proton? She’s HOT!
Hey Baby…How YOU doin’??

Sexy accent, smart, loves tiny things…I’m a shoe-in! Nice sweater bosons…I’d like to show her my wave-particle duality…

I’m totally spanking it tonight to “Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section at the Fermilab Tevatron pp collider using a cone-based jet algorithm“