A scientific seminar will be hosted by CERN on July 4, 2012 to discuss the latest results on the Higgs boson. The CMS and ATLAS experiments will present the initial results of the 2012 data analysis at this event, which comes as a curtain raiser for ICHEP, a key particle physics conference to be conducted in Melbourne, Australia.
The 2012 LHC run was slated in such a way so as to present the optimum quantity of data to the CMS and ATLAS experiments much earlier to the ICHEP conference. The strategy was a success and delivered more data from April to June, 2012 when compared to the entire 2011 run. Moreover, the experiments have been fine tuning their analysis methods to enhance their effectiveness to track Higgs-like events from millions of collisions happening every second. Thus, they have considerably improved their sensitivity to new phenomena for data sets of both years.
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid has performed all the data crunching. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid has surpassed its design criteria to address the record quantity of data and computing. Sergio Bertolucci, Director for Research and Computing at CERN, informed that the current data volume is twice that of last year and must be adequate to observe whether the trends noticed in the 2011 data are still present or gone.
Whenever a new particle is identified, CMS and ATLAS will require time to discover whether the particle is the Higgs boson or its another exotic form that may pave the way to new physics. Higgs boson is the final missing link of the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model clearly depicts the matter that forms the visible universe, and the forces that control its behavior.
A press conference will be conducted at CERN after the seminar. Participants of the ICHEP conference can attend the seminar through a live two-way link.
Source: http://www.cern.ch/