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...but, we can hope for the best. BR5
Forbes.com (AP)
GENEVA -- Officials at the world's biggest particle physics lab are playing down claims of a major discovery after a leaked internal memo sparked excitement among science enthusiasts that the elusive Higgs-boson 'God particle' has been found.
A spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says the observation by scientists working at the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider "is probably nothing."
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Physics blogs are alive with chatter about a possible sign of the Higgs boson – or perhaps an entirely unexpected particle – in data from the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. But the claim has not gone through the experiment's vetting process and could easily turn out to be wrong, physicists say.
The latest rumours of its possible sighting come from an abstract that was posted by an anonymous commenter on mathematician Peter Woit's blog on Thursday.
The authors of the abstract say ATLAS data shows more photon pairs than expected with an energy of 115 GeV - the likely mass of the Higgs boson (using Einstein's E=mc2, Physicists express mass in terms of energy units).
New Scientist: Has the LHC found a hint of the Higgs boson?
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