Friday 23 January 2015

How Three Guys With $10K and Decades-Old Data Almost Found the Higgs Boson First

How Three Guys With $10K and Decades-Old Data Almost Found the Higgs Boson First

On a fall morning in 2009, a team of three young physicists huddled around a computer screen in a small office overlooking Broadway in New York. They were dressed for success—even the graduate student’s shirt had buttons—and a bottle of champagne was at the ready. With a click of the mouse, they hoped to unmask […]


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from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/42a0ae3a/sc/4/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A150C0A10Chiggs0Ediscovery0Ehijack0Eattempt0C/story01.htm

via Science News

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