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11 September 2012
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today published observations of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson in the journal Physics Letters B.
CMS experiments detecting Higgs Boson
The papers: "Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC" and "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" are freely available online on ScienceDirect.
"These papers present the first observations of a new particle discovered by two big experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson which has spanned many decades and has involved many experiments," says CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela. "They are the most important papers to come from the LHC so far and the findings are key to the field of particle physics. We are very pleased to see them published in Physics Letters B, accessible to all who may want to read them."
An artist rendition of the Higgs boson emerging after a collision
"The discovery reported in these papers is a momentous step forward in fundamental knowledge," says ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti. "It is the culmination of more than 20 years of effort of the worldwide high-energy physics community to build and operate instruments of unprecedented technology, complexity and performance: the LHC accelerator and related experiments."
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Read the papers:
"Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931200857X
"Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269312008581
Find out more:
Physics Letters B: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/physics-letters-b/
Large Hadron Collider: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/HowLHC-en.html
ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
From the CERN Courier
"Discovery of a new boson – the ATLAS perspective": http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/50564
"Inside story: the search in CMS for the Higgs boson": http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/50566
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