HTTP:: Tevatron Could Beat LHC to the Higgs Boson
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Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was under construction, the Batavia, Illinois-based Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) began to work extra-hard on finding the elusive Higgs Boson. This elementary particle would complete and firmly prove the Standard Model in physics, which now features two classes of particles, leptons and quarks, alongside “force carriers†known as gauge bosons. Only powerful accelerators could hypothetically discover the particle, if it exists, and the LHC was especially built for this objective. However, in its initial test runs, the large, CERN-operated accelerator malfunctioned and entered a period of extensive repairs, which are due to be completed this fall. It won't be until 2011 that the LHC will become capable of firing beams of protons at each other in full force, so its American counterpart, despite its smaller size and lesser power, has more chances of actually finding the Higgs Boson in its own experiments. “Th!
e Tevatron definitely has a chance,†expert Greg Landsberg, from the Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, who is also an LHC detector scientist, adds. Experts at Tevatron say that, by early 2011, their accelerator would have allowed them to collect sufficient amounts of data to either confirm, or completely rule...
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