Physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson
Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 20:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Q&A on how the Large Hadron Collider may help pin down the last piece needed to validate the Standard Model of particle physics.Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, stoked speculation last week that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson — the final piece of evidence needed to prove that the Standard Model of particle physics, which explains the behavior of subatomic particles, is correct.