IF THE Higgs boson has any groupies they鈥檒l certainly be heading to Hamburg, Germany, this August. That鈥檚 where the particle that reputedly gives all others their mass might just make its long-overdue debut.
If does exist, it is almost certainly being created right now at Fermilab鈥檚 Tevatron in Illinois. But the question is whether enough particles can be made to reveal themselves by their decay products.
鈥淚f the Higgs exists it is almost certainly being created now at Fermilab鈥檚 Tevatron in Illinois鈥�
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Last week, two teams at the Tevatron announced that they have all but ruled out a Higgs with an energy greater than 160 gigaelectronvolts. Previous experiments have already excluded anything under 114 GeV. So now they are looking at the range in between.
By August, both teams expect to reveal their next batch of results, at the Lepton-Photon Symposium in Hamburg. The likeliest outcome will be a further exclusion of energies at which the Higgs can exist. However, Dmitri Denisov of Fermilab insists, 鈥淥ur goal is not to exclude, but to find the Higgs.鈥� If so, it could be show time for the Higgs at last.