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13 Dec 2011
An event showing four muons (red tracks) from a proton-proton collision in ATLAS. This event is consistent with two Z particles decaying into two muons each. Such events are produced by Standard Model processes without Higgs particles. They are also a possible signature for Higgs particle production, but many events must be analysed together in order to tell if there is a Higgs signal.
In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the elusive Higgs. The main conclusion is that the Standard Model Higgs boson, if it exists, is most likely to have a mass constrained to the range 116-130 GeV by the ATLAS experiment, and 115-127 GeV by CMS. Tantalising hints have been seen by both experiments in this mass region, but these are not yet strong enough to claim a discovery.
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Watch the webcast of the press conference live: http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/
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More information:
Press release: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR25.11E.html
Video news release:
A-Roll: https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1406052
B-Roll: https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1406051
Video interviews with CMS and ATLAS spokespeople: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/background/
Background on the Higgs boson: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/background/
Further information from:
ATLAS: http://www.atlas.ch/news/2011/status-report-dec-2011.html
CMS: http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/cms-search-standard-model-higgs-boson-lhc-data-2010-and-2011
Images, Text, Credit: CERN.
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