Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN,

for its acronym in French) confirmed the discovery of the Higgs boson, subatomic particle
popularly known as the "God particle", elusive component that makes all objects in the universe
have mass.
This scientific finding, considered the largest in the world in the last 100 years, was announced by
Joe Incandela, spokesman for the Compact Muon Solenoid detector (CMS) of the LHC, which for
years looking for this tiny subatomic particle, the last missing piece of the Model Standard physics,
which explains all the Universe lasfuerzas.
"Although this is a preliminary result, is very strong and very solid," said Incandela at the
International Conference of High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2012) to be held in Melbourne, Australia,
where he presented the results obtained by the experiments CMS and LHC ATLAS.
In a statement from CERN, noted that with a confidence level of 95% we can say that the Higgs
boson has a mass of 125.3 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), about 130 times the mass of the proton, with a
value of 4.9 sigma, figure indicates high certainty that the result is reliable, since officially a
discovery must have a value of 5 sigma.
"We've crossed a new stage in our understanding of nature," says Rolf Heur, director of CERN.
"The discovery opens the way for studies requiring more stats rested and set the properties of the
new particle," he says.
Since late last year, CERN scientists announced that they had evidence of the existence of the
Higgs boson, but data obtained by detectors CMS and ATLAS at CERN in 2011 and 2012, and the
U.S. Tevatron Fermilab National Laboratory ( Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), for 10 years,
supplemented by sufficient information to announce the discovery.
With a "thank you, nature," Fabiola Gianotti, director of the ATLAS detector, reported that they
found a new particle with mass 126.5 gigaelectronvolts, 5 sigma, which means a discovery. But it
still needs more time to post the results.
Physicists conducted their experiments at the LHC and Fermilab, which are large underground
laboratories with ring-shaped tunnels and large colliders, inside which impact small subatomic
particles accelerated to almost the speed of light, in this case, proton- , that can disintegrate
observase and analyzed its smaller components of both matter and energy.
The proposal made in the 70s by physicists Peter Higgs, Robert and Franois Englert Brout suggests
that the origin of the universe after the Big Bang lacked mass particles, but when cooled emerged
a invisible force field was called the "Higgs field", which was formed along with the particle "Higgs
boson."
This field prevails throughout the cosmos and all particles acquire mass interact with him, and this
idea had provided a satisfactory and well stocked with phenomena and mathematical calculations,
but the problem was that until now no one had ever observed the Higgs boson in an experiment
to confirm the theory.
A presentation of the results at a conference in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, came scientist
Peter Higgs himself, who stated: "I am extremely impressed by what they have accomplished, my
congratulations to everyone involved in this amazing achievement . It is a great happiness to have
been able to live. "
After the discovery, the next step will be to determine the exact nature of the particle and its
importance to our understanding of the Universe. Know if the Higgs boson is the last ingredient or
if something more exotic.
The standard describes the fundamental particles of which we are made visible and everything in
the cosmos and the forces acting between them. However, it is a complex issue.
"The difference of the Higgs field with gravitational or electromagnetic fields which we are most
familiar, is that it has a certain direction," explains the scientist Gerardo Herrera, leader of the
Mexican group working at CERN.
"The gravitational field we are used to is always manifested towards the center of the Earth.
Thanks to that we remain fixed on the surface of the planet regardless of latitude and longitude in
which we find ourselves."
Higgs field interacts with all those living particles embedded therein and provides a mass, ie, a
certain resistance to movement.
Consider a room full of teenagers where Justin Bieber goes, the fourth is the Higgs field and a
particle of matter Bieber. Immediately the girls are grouped around the artist to greet him and ask
for his autograph, and consequent flow of screams. Then the other girls around approach to know
the details, generating a wave grouping running all over the place, forming a single compact
package following Bieber around the room.
That grouping Bieber gives a greater mass than normal, ie, acquires a greater resistance to
movement and work harder to cross the room, that if I did alone. That grouping that gave more
mass is the Higgs boson.
The Mexican group working on the collider LHC ALICE two detectors developed for observing Higgs
bosons in a cleaner, said Gerardo Herrera, leader of the Mexican group working at CERN.
ALICE Although not a planned experiment to detect the Higgs, can study the mechanism with
which the Higgs is produced in proton proton collisions, a process where the protons not actually
touch, which means a much cleaner method. "So clean that only appears in the detector Higgs".
Herrera said the Mexican detector, which is working since last December in ALICE, is already being
implemented in the CMS and ATLAS, because this method of physics called diffractive facilitates
analysis of the Higgs boson.
The Mexican group also comprised Ildefonso Leon Autonomous University of Sinaloa, and Daniel
Tapia and Veronica Canoeing, CINVESTAV, two detectors installed diffractive beam along the Great
Hadron Colsionador.