Teams spot promising bumps, but can't prove particle exists
(NEWSER) - CERN's much-hyped presentation of its latest Large Hadron Collider results proved to be a bit of a letdown today, as two teams of scientists both admitted that, despite some "tantalizing hints," they hadn't located the elusive Higgs boson yet. They did, however, narrow down where it might be hiding; according to their combined data, the particle's mass must be somewhere between 115 billion and 127 billion electron volts, assuming it actually exists, the New York Times reports. More»
