{"id":4790,"date":"2012-06-22T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2012-06-22T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T17:15:20","slug":"higgs-discovery-announcement-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4790","title":{"rendered":"Higgs Discovery Announcement July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned via <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/cern_calls_press_conference_fo.html\">Physics World<\/a> that CERN will hold a press conference on Wednesday July 4 to give an &#8220;Update on the search for the Higgs Boson&#8221;.  More information has just <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&#038;confId=196564\">appeared<\/a> (including a press release <a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/press\/PressReleases\/Releases2012\/PR16.12E.html\">here<\/a>), showing that there will be a 2 hour seminar on the results starting at 9am Geneva time, followed by a press conference at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from the experiments indicate that at least one of them, if not both, will reach the 5 sigma level of significance for the Higgs signal, when they combine 2011 and 2012 data and the most sensitive channels.  So, this will definitely be the long-awaited Higgs discovery announcement, and party-time for HEP physicists.<\/p>\n<p>One could note that the last major announcement of the discovery of a new elementary particle at CERN was also made on a Wednesday, July 4, back in 1984.  That one didn&#8217;t work out so well, but things are very different now, with results from two independent experiments and a high standard of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned via Physics World that CERN will hold a press conference on Wednesday July 4 to give an &#8220;Update on the search for the Higgs Boson&#8221;. More information has just appeared (including a press release here), showing that there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}