Before anyone gets carried away, the term "God particle" wasn't coined
by Peter Higgs the theorist who first proposed the Higgs boson. Its
theistic nickname was coined by the editor of Nobel-prize winning
physicist Leon Lederman, but Higgs himself wasn't happy with the label
and found it embarrassing because: "it is the kind of misuse of
terminology which I think might offend some people".
Lederman wanted to refer to it as that 'goddamn particle' but his editor
felt it would hurt sales of his book. Higgs just refers to it as "The
particle named after me."
US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles' By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News [DZero (Fermilab)] The idea comes from
results gathered by the DZero experiment
There may be multiple versions of the elusive "God particle" - or Higgs
boson - according to a new study.
Finding the Higgs is the primary aim of the £6bn ($10bn) Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) experiment near Geneva.
But recent results from the LHC's US rival suggest physicists could be
hunting five particles, not one.
The data may point to new laws of physics beyond the current accepted
theory - known as the Standard Model.
The Higgs boson's nickname comes from its importance to the Standard
Model; it is the sub-atomic particle which explains why all other
particles have mass.
However, despite decades trying, no-one, so far, has detected it.
The idea of multiple Higgs bosons is supported by results gathered by
the DZero experiment at the Tevatron particle accelerator, operated by
Fermilab in Illinois, US.
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