WASHINGTON: A new experiment has found hints of the Higgs Boson in an ordinary lab environment – leaving scientists wondering if the £3bn spent on the LHC was an enormous mistake.
The Higgs mode was observed in superconducting materials by researchers from Bar-Ilan university – in an ordinary lab.
The researchers say it means that future physics experiments could be carried out on a laboratory tabletop instead of a huge particle accelerator.
‘Just as the CERN experiments revealed the existence of the Higgs boson in a high-energy accelerator environment, we have now revealed a Higgs boson analogue in superconductors,’ says Prof. Aviad Frydman of Bar-Ilan University.
‘Exciting the Higgs mode in a particle accelerator requires enormous energy levels – measured in giga-electronvolts, or 109 eV,” Frydman says.
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