No early Christmas present for physicists
They haven’t yet got their hands on “Higgs” but physicists around the world remain optimist they’re on the right track to finding the particle (known as the Higgs boson), considered the last missing puzzle piece of the standard model that describes the universe at its most basic level. SFU physicist Michel Vetterli is at the CERN facility in Switzerland, research headquarters, where the status of the search for the Higgs boson was shared at a global seminar today. “As expected, no observation was announced but the larger data set collected in 2011 has allowed the experiments to significantly restrict the mass range the Higgs boson could have,” says Vetterli. He and colleagues can explain what comes next as they anticipate more clues in 2012 data.

Michel Vetterli, vetm@triumf.ca
Dugan O’Neil, 778.782.5623; doneil@sfu.ca
Bernd Stelzer, 778.782.7731; stelzer@sfu.ca