Cern is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, its American rival claims. Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best. Cern's Lyn Evans admitted the accident which will halt the $7bn Large Hadron Collider until September may cost them one of the biggest prizes in physics. The two rivals are trying to identify the "God Particle" - one of the fundamental particles of matter.
Cern is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, its American rival claims.
Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best.
Cern's Lyn Evans admitted the accident which will halt the $7bn Large Hadron Collider until September may cost them one of the biggest prizes in physics.
The two rivals are trying to identify the "God Particle" - one of the fundamental particles of matter.
I doubt that the Tevatron will find the Higgs. Indirect hints are for a low mass ~120 GeV Higgs. When the limit sensitivity with nearly half the data the Tevatron will ever get is worse than a factor of 2 away of Standard Model discovery, then it doesn't seem too likely, that we (I'm working at a Tevatron experiment) will find it. (OK that is just CDF, add D0, but still) Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
