First the light, and then the dark
When the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermi Labs was first built in 1983, it was the largest circular accelerator in the world. Yesterday the facility in Batavia, Illinois announced that it had found evidence of a new particle. This discovery described as ” the most significant in half a century” could be the long searched for Higgs Boson particle or could possibly be evidence of a new force, to be added to the already known gravitational,electromagnetic, strong and weak forces.
Berkley Labs
Theoretical physicists were quick to add that this could be a statistical bump. Final proof will have to be done at the Large Hadron Accelerator in Europe.
Due to budget cuts, the Tevatron will go dark in September.