Scientists at CERN Â are claiming to have discovered Higgs Boson which is assumed to be the basis building block of Universe. Put simply, it is one of the basic building block of the Universe. Atoms are divided into Electrons, proton and Neutron which are further composed of Quarks. Higgs Boson is the particle which brings two or more Quarks Together. In a layman terms, it is the smallest particle found till date.
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CERN team “announces the discovery of a boson with mass 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/c2 within 4.9 sigma.” and ATLAS collaboration announced that “we observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV.”  These findings meets the formal level required to announce a new particle which is “consistent with” the Higgs boson, but scientists are cautious as to whether it is formally identified as actually being the Higgs boson, pending further analysis
“We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature,” said Rolf Heuer, the director general of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) said in Geneva.
“The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle’s properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe,” Heuer was quoted as saying.
The action took place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where scientists have been tirelessly engaged in finding how the universe that we live in started with a Big Bang.
The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt for explaining how matter attains its mass, reported BBC.
The announcement of the results at CERN, home of the LHC in Geneva, was met with loud applause and cheers.
“The results are preliminary but the 5 sigma signal at around 125 GeV we’re seeing is dramatic. This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it’s the heaviest boson ever found,” said CMS experiment spokesperson Joe Incandela. CMS is one of the teams involved in the experiment.
CERN quoted Incandela as saying that the “implications are very significant and
it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in
all of our studies and cross-checks”.
Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, wiped a tear as the presentations got over.
“I would like to add my congratulations to everyone involved in this achievement,” said.
“It’s really an incredible thing that it’s happened in my lifetime.”
The scientists claim to have seen a “bump” in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at 125.3 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) – about 133 times heavier than the proton at the heart of every atom.
Six theoreticians, including Peter Higgs, first proposed the Higgs in 1964.
CNN explained that the sub-atomic particle is believed to be at the base of all mass, the basic building block of the universe.
Why is it Called God Particle?
The Higgs boson is often referred to as “the God particle” by the media, after the title of Leon Lederman’s popular science book on particle physics, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?  While use of this term may have contributed to increased media interest,many scientists dislike it, since it overstates the particle’s importance, not least since its discovery would still leave unanswered questions about the unification of quantum chromodynamics, the electroweak interaction, and gravity, as well as the ultimate origin of the universe.
Lederman said he gave it the nickname “The God Particle” because the particle is “so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive,”but jokingly added that a second reason was because “the publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing.
A renaming competition conducted by the science correspondent for the British Guardian newspaper chose the name “the champagne bottle boson” as the best from among their submissions: “The bottom of a champagne bottle is in the shape of the Higgs potential and is often used as an illustration in physics lectures. So it’s not an embarrassingly grandiose name, it is memorable, and  has some physics connection too.”