Mounting evidence of Higgs boson a “triumph” for particle physics

Mounting evidence of Higgs boson a "triumph” for particle physics. Mounting evidence that the Higgs boson exists is a "triumph" for particle physics, according to Durham University experts providing the theory and analysis behind a number of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Scientists at the LHC at CERN, in Geneva, have announced that they have found a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs. The discovery could help answer other questions about the Universe, according to Professor Valentin Khoze, Director of Durham University's Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP). Experts at the IPPP are providing the theory and analysis behind a number of experiments at the LHC. The Higgs particle generates masses for other elementary particles via the Higgs mechanism and without it the Universe would not remotely look like anything we see today. Professor Khoze said: "The mounting evidence that Higgs bosons have been produced and detected at the Large Hadron Collider experiment at CERN is a triumph for particle physics.