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| Mass: | at least 114 GeV ? | Spin: | Zero |
| Charge: | Netural | Particle Type: | Boson |
| Remarks: |
First proposed by Peter Higgs in 1964 and taken seriously
by other physicists in 1972. May be lurking in a vacuum. Indications for the Higgs boson
were reported in September 2000 at CERN's LEP collider in Geneva,
Switzerland. Location of the search shifted to Fermilab's Tevatron
Collider which began a five-year run in March 2001. Colliding
protons and antiprotons may produce the Higgs and a W boson: 
 The b quarks will be seen as jets, many particles leaving tracks from a point.
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BE ON THE LOOKOUT
The Higgs boson is wanted as the particle widely thought to be responsible for endowing other known particles with mass. The Higgs boson is a critical ingredient to complete our current understanding of the Standard Model, the theoretical edifice of particle physics. Different types of Higgs bosons, if they exist, may lead us into new realms of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Higgs has proven difficult to spot. Why? Note suspected Higgs mass. It is large! That means it takes a lot of energy to create Higgs. Also, it turns out that it is created infrequently in particle antiparticle beam collisions like those at CERN and Fermilab. And so very high beam currents are required to produce enough Higgs to observe them unambiguously.
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