domingo, 8 de julho de 2012

Colisões que mudaram o mundo...




New baby boson is born, weighing in at about 126 GeV

Today, in a special seminar held at CERN, the two collaborations operating large multipurpose detectors,CMS and ATLAS, presented new and convincing signals from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that could be coming from the Higgs boson.
This fundamental particle was predicted nearly fifty years ago in the framework of the Standard Model, the theoretical model that describes just about everything observed so far in the world of particle physics. Without the Higgs boson, this model however failed to explain how particles acquired their mass.
The seminar was webcasted live to the world and the ambiance was both festive and serious. Or should I say seriously festive.

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