Higgs hunting

摘要

Data from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have further restricted the range of possible masses for the elusive Higgs boson -the particle thought to give other fundamental particles their mass. On 18 November, research teams from the particle accelerator at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, revealed the latest results, which restrict the Higgs to a mass of 114-141 gigaelectronvolts. Data analysis scouring this final hiding place should be complete by the end of this year.