Nowhere to Run, Bosons, Nowhere to Hide

In a seminar held today, the scientists from ATLAS and CMS detectors at CERN separately presented results of more than 300 trillion particle collisions made last year. Although it is too early to draw definite conclusions, the message is clear; Higgs bosons have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

Both detectors saw the hints of light weight Higgs roughly at 125 GeV (about 130 times heavier than the protons). However, it was little short of a discovery as the level of sigma significance fell below the established line of a scientific discovery. Researchers, in coming days, have to focus on a narrow window around this value to close in on the elusive particles.

In recent days,CERN had to quench all rumors about the Higgs hype. Now the researchers know where they should look though they haven't been able to find one -- yet. The bottom line, however, is: The experiments will have enough data by the end of 2012 to accept or reject the existence of the Higgs bosons.