“Cern scientist expects ‘first glimpse’ of Higgs boson”(BBC News),
Next Tuesday, two separate teams will each reveal the outcome of trawling through their latest data from LHC collisions.
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Professor John Ellis, a former head of theoretical physics at Cern, told Newsnight’s science editor Susan Watts about the growing sense of excitement at Cern, a week ahead of that key science meeting next Tuesday.
“I think we are going to get the first glimpse. The LHC experiments have already looked high and low for this missing piece. It could be that it weighs several hundred times the proton mass, but that seems very unlikely, then there’s a whole intermediate range where we know it cannot be, then there’s the low mass range where we actually expect it might be. There seem to be some hints emerging there… and that’s what we’re going to learn on Tuesday”.