What if the Higgs had not been discovered? – Unocero

 
 
 
 

More than two years ago, CERN announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle, the Higgs boson, the God particle, by which one of which predicted 50 years ago, Peter Higgs, received the Nobel Prize in Physics. However, it is still debated whether the findings of CERN were really talking about the particle.

On July 4, 2012, the director general of CERN, Rolf Heuer, announced that his team had found “a consistent particle the Higgs boson” and that the discovery was confirmed by two separate experiments (ATLAS and CMS). However, Heuer noticed was required to confirm that you actually spoke of the “God particle”.

Now, in research published last week in the journal Physical Review D, Mads Toudal Frandsen, associate professor University of Southern Denmark, Center for Cosmology phenomenological particle physics, and colleagues, said the existing data on the God particle was inconclusive. They wrote that it was possible that CERN had found the Higgs boson, but they found also be something else.

And although the researchers note that there are many calculations that indicate that the particle discovered at the Large Collider Hadron Collider (LHC) is indeed the Higgs boson, no clear cut evidence. However, as all physicists seem to agree is that the experiments showed a particle never seen before.

“The data taken at CERN in general as evidence that the particle is found to Higgs. It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but could have obtained this information from other particles. ” Frandsen said: “the current data are not precise enough to determine which particle is.” He adds, “It could be a number of other particles. We believe it could be called techni-Higgs particles, which are in many ways similar to the Higgs particle. A techn-Higgs particle is not an elementary particle. Instead, is called techni-quarks, which is thought, are elementary. “

Frandsen explained that the techni-quarks could unite a very diverse way to different objects, some could be considered precisely these techni-Higgs particles, while others may even be dark matter. Therefore, he and his colleagues believe that physicists will soon find many different particles, each built from the techni-quarks at the LHC.

The techni-Higgs particle and the Higgs particle could be easily confused in the experiments, the researcher explained. And although they are similar, they are two different particles belonging to two major theories of how the universe was created. Although the Higgs boson is the missing piece in the Standard Model of particle physics, if any, may require the presence of a force that one in a whole to form the particle itself.

“None of the four known forces of nature (gravity, electromagnetic force, strong and weak nuclear force), are good for the techni-quarks together,” adding “there must be still a force of nature not yet discovered. This is called technicolor force. ” With regard then to what was found at CERN, the research says it could be the Higgs particle, indeed, either the techni-Higgs particle made of two techni-quarks. Frandsen think more data from CERN could probably determine which particle it is. It may require a more powerful accelerator to observe quarks directly techni

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