Stateside Higgs hunt
9 March 2012
Physicists searching for evidence of the Higgs Boson at the USA’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, including a team from Imperial, have announced new results that closely match those revealed at CERN last December.
The team led by Professor Gavin Davies and Dr Jonathan Hays (Physics) contributed to the analysis high energy particle collisions at Fermilab’s Tevatron particle accelerator. Accelerators allow scientists to recreate the energy conditions found in the universe shortly after the Big Bang.
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2 Responses to “Stateside Higgs hunt”
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Joe says:
IC needs to play up Tom Kibble’s (along with Guralnik and Hagen) role in the mechanism and bosn. Tom has been instrumental in this and more needs to be done by IC London.
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Simon Levey says:
Hi Joe,
Yes you’re right. We do mention Professor Kibble’s contribution in this news story here:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_14-12-2011-17-51-0I’ll see if we can get in touch with him for a future article.
Simon
