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Update on the search for the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN

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To continue on with Neven’s post from December 9th, CERN will host a seminar to present the status of the searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson from ATLAS and CMS experiments.  The results collected from the summer are “sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on [its] existence or non-existence.”
(from http://press.web.cern.ch/press/)

For people wishing to view the live web casts, you can do so at http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/.  Ones that may be of interest include:

2011-12-13 5 AM-12:30 PM EST: Update on the search for the Higgs boson by ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN 

2011-12-13 8 AM-11 AM EST: Status of the searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson

2011-12-13 8 AM-10 AM EST: CERN public seminar

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  1. I was just interviewed by a radio station about this. I was expecting some very basic low-level questions along the lines of “what are they doing and why?” but the host started by describing to his audience (in radio-host-ese) how the LHC worked, then asked me what the implications of finding the Higgs would be for the various theories of particle physics. I was impressed, actually. He must have a very well-educated audience. I hope I did not say anything too stupid!

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