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Live Update 2 on the Higgs: CMS Experiment Reports its Results

DEC 13, 2011
Guido Tonelli, spokesperson of another Higgs experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, describes the results.
Live Update 2 on the Higgs: CMS Experiment Reports its Results lead image

Live Update 2 on the Higgs: CMS Experiment Reports its Results lead image

Lucas Taylor / CERN via Wikimedia Commons

Guido Tonelli, spokesperson of another experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, known as CMS, gave the other main presentation. His team reported a most likely mass for the Higgs at between 115-127 GeV/c^2, with their results most compatible with a mass of 124 GeV/c^2, corresponding to roughly 123 times the mass of the hydrogen atom. Like the ATLAS team, which reported their results beforehand, they do not have enough statistics to declare a discovery.

My first post on the Higgs seminar is here :

Inside Science News Service will have a longer feature article a little later today on the Higgs with additional background and information.

The webcast is ongoing at http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/

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