Tevatron tightens up the race for the Higgs

WITH the Large Hadron Collider still in the repair shop, the race to find the Higgs boson has become a lot tighter, thanks to the older and less powerful – but working – Tevatron collider near Chicago.

“The Tevatron definitely has a chance,” says Greg Landsberg of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who works on one of the LHC’s detectors.

With the LHC due to restart only in November at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, the Tevatron has been gaining ground in the search for the Higgs,…