CERN confirms Higgs discovery  By Bryan Dyne 23 March 2013
Physicists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN) have announced that the new fundamental particle
discovered last year is the long sought Higgs boson, the
particle that governs how matter has mass. The results were
presented jointly by the two major groups collaborating at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), operating instruments known as CMS
and ATLAS.  The results were released at this year’s Moriond
Conference, an annual particle physics conference, held March
9-16 in Italy. The total data set used is two and a half times
what was collected up to last July and shows a Higgs that is
approximately 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV, a unit of mass/energy
in particle physics), which agrees completely with the previous
results. For comparison, a single hydrogen atom is just under
one GeV.  This result both shows the strength of the modern
model of the material universe, the Standard Model of particle
physics, as well as open up possible new