PHYSICISTS think they’ve caught tantalising glimpses of the elusive particle
that gives matter its mass.
Researchers working with a giant particle detector called ALEPH at the CERN
particle physics laboratory near Geneva say a handful of oddball collisions may
mark the fleeting appearance of the Higgs boson. The Higgs is a crucial piece in
the jigsaw of fundamental particles. Finding it is currently the big prize for
particle physicists.
The machine that produced these events, the Large Electron Positron Collider
(LEP), is scheduled to close down for good at the end of this month. So the
ALEPH researchers have precious…
