Hoping For Higgs

摘要

If the Higgs boson has any groupies they'll certainly be heading to Hamburg, Germany, this August. That's where the particle that reputedly gives allrnothers their mass might just make its long-overdue debut.rnIf does exist, it is almost certainly being created right now at Fermilab's Tevatron in Illinois. But the question is whether enough particles can be made to reveal themselves by their decay products.rnLast week, two teams at the Tevatron announced that they have all but ruled out a Higgs with an energy greater than 160 gigaelectronvolts. Previous experiments have already excluded anything under 114 GeV. So now they are looking at the range in between.