Thursday 12 March 2009

'God' particle not such a heavyweight afterall?

The Tevatron strikes again ....

The possibility of a high-mass Higgs boson may have just evaporated with new data - more precise measurement of the W boson - released today by the FermiLab. The result could mean a tougher,search for a welterweight Higgs. "If someone is trying to sell you a 175 GeV Higgs, I wouldn't buy it", physicist Heidi Schellman of Northwestern University, noted.

Source: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/W-Mass-20090311.html

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