Hunt for higgs boson: mass of top quark narrows search

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Hunt for higgs boson: mass of top quark narrows search

New high-energy particle research heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component of modern physics -- the massive fundamental particle called the Higgs boson.


Analysis of data from particle collisions resulting in two leptons helps improve measurements of the mass of another heavy subatomic particle called the top quark, says physicist Robert Kehoe at Southern Methodist University (...)


Physicists theorize that the top quark -- because of its sizable mass -- is sensitive to the Higgs and therefore may point to it. They theorize that knowing the mass of the top quark narrows the range of where the Higgs will be detected in CERN's LHC collisions.


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