DZero detector showing the large liquid argon calorimeter. (Photographs reproduced with kind permission of Fermilab)
High speed beams, heaps of excitement and hunting the Higgs boson. Imperial physicist talks about working at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider - News - Thursday 19 August 2010 - By Lucy Goodchild If looking for the elusive Higgs boson particle is like searching for a needle in a haystack, research published last month has made the haystack smaller. The Higgs boson is a particle, or set of particles, that might give others mass. The existence of the Higgs boson has been theorised but never recorded. Scientists have now ruled out a quarter of the allowed mass range for the Higgs Boson, in results presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from 22-28 July. This narrowing of the search range improves the chances of identifying the particle. Dr Jonathan Hays and colleagues at Imperial College London were amongst over 600 physicists from around the world working on data from the DZero experiment at Fermilab's high-speed particle accelerator.
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