Pakistanis would be happy to learn that
there is also a group of Pakistani scientist who has been a part of the
hectic efforts carried out by the world’s top scientists in Geneva,
Switzerland for the discovery of a new subatomic particle that has
close resemblance to the elusive Higgs boson or ‘God Particle’.
According to local Pakistani TV channel
Dunya News, Pakistani scientists are associated to value edition work
with regard to the research.
Two independent teams of scientists
announced on Wednesday the discovery of a new subatomic particle that
has close resemblance to the elusive Higgs boson or ‘God Particle’,
media reports said.
Joe Incandela of CMS, one of the two
research teams, told scientists at the European Center for Nuclear
Research (CERN) that the data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has
reached the level of certainty needed for a discovery.
Although the new subatomic particle
looks like the one that is believed to give all matter in the universe
size and shape, Incandela did not confirm whether the new particle is
indeed the tiny and elusive Higgs boson, popularly referred to as the
‘God Particle’.
Fabiola Gianotti of ATLAS, the other
team at the world’s biggest atom smasher, announced that they have
similar results at around 126 Gev with 5 sigma certainty.
Five Sigma is the usual particle
physics threshold for discovery; it translates to 99.99997 percent
certainty of discovery of a new particle.
