July 2, 2012

expert reaction to new Higgs clues from Fermilab

The final data produced by the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab in the US found the strongest evidence yet of the Higgs boson, but not enough to claim a discovery.

Prof Dan Tovey, Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Sheffield, said:

“These intriguing hints from the Tevatron appear to support the results from the LHC shown at CERN in December. The results are particularly important because they use a completely different and complementary way of searching for the Higgs boson. This gives us more confidence that what we are seeing is really evidence of new physics rather than just a statistical fluke. We will need to wait until Wednesday and the latest results from the LHC before getting the full picture however.”