Light Shines on ' God Particle

Light Shines on ' God Particle: Canada has been declared oneself a sit down at the tabular array controlling single of the world's largest and arguably most breathless experimentations, which has given men of science their 1st coup d'oeil of the "goodness particle."

Men of science sieving through with the wreckage of high-energy hits in an belowground lab in Europe annunciated Tues they have seen "tantalizing hints" of the long-sought particle, more than with formality known as the Higgs boson, which could help explain why there is mass in the universe of discourse.

Canada, which now cooperates on the $10-billion experimentation that is animating experimental condition* at the clock of the Big charge, has been asked to join as an "associate extremity," said Nigel Lockyer, managing director of the TRIUMF nationalist particle physics lab at the University from B.C.
    
   

"It would be very exciting for a country like Canada to have a say in what is the project of particle physics in the world today," said Lockyer.

How many physicists throughout Canada, has been linked in the announcement in a crowded room seminar at the European Organization for nuclear research near Geneva.

There was applause as the leaders of the two teams working at Metro Large Hadron Collider of CERN described as their groups can both have had a glimpse of the elusive Higgs boson particle.

The feed for the seminar crashed shortly after it began, as scientists and spectators from around the world connected to hear most anticipated results.

"I think they were over-whelmed," said Rob McPherson of the University of Victoria, which speaks to Canadian physicists working with ATLAS, one of two huge detectors inside the collider. He was anxious to hear what they had discovered with the detector according to their "friendly staff".

It turns out that both teams have detected signs of the Higgs boson, widely described as the most coveted prize in particle physics. But scientists say they have not yet shown that the particle exists.

"We have reduced the region where the Higgs particle is more likely to be, and we see some interesting signals, but we need more information before we can reach any conclusions," said Fabiola Gianotti, ATLAS team leader.

Guido Tonelli, who represent the operational group of the second detector, said his team found evidence consistent with theories about the Higgs, but "statistical significance is not big enough to say anything conclusive."

Lockyer said that scientists are being "ultracareful", and with good reason, whereas finding the Higgs is the "discovery of the century" in particle physics.

McPherson said that the results are "really exciting" as both teams, working separately and analyzing their data independently, have provided similar results.

You expect to be another year before they can find proves, but the excitement among physicists is mounting.

"While we cannot say with certainty that what we have seen is the Higgs boson, is beginning to look like there is something there," said William Trischuk, Director of the Institute of particle physics at the University of Toronto, who held a briefing to discuss the results and the involvement of Canada. Trischuk is the ATLAS team.

Canada has contributed close to 100 million dollars to the international project, providing hard-ware is the collider and the ATLAS detector. And one of 10 "farms" of Collider is situated at TRIUMF on the campus of the University of BC.