Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Higgs or No Higgs?

Is seems that we are not done with the subject matter of the post before the previous one. Among the chief aims of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland is to find the missing particle of Standard Model of particle physics called the Higgs. The Aligarh group participating at LHC is not part of that experiment. They are part of another experiment that shall explore the formation of something called Quark-Gluon Plasma or QGP. This post is not about that. It is about Higgs. The Tevatron machine at Fermi-Lab in USA is among the last colliders to have tried its hands on this particle. The latest result mentioned two posts ago is Tevatron's take on the question of Higgs. We'll soon know whether Tevatron got a hint of Higgs or not, after the paper analysed by Filip Tanedo gets more scrutiny.

Why are we belabouring the point? Well AMU has a stake their also. Dr Syed Afsar Abbas, Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of AMU say that Higgs will not be seen. Here is the paper. And here is some discussion on it at a controversial blog Not Even Wrong.