Unless you’re the Higgs boson, don’t expect much attention in July when the International Conference on High Energy Physics convenes in Melbourne, Australia.
Rumors of an impending Very Important Higgs Announcement at the physics meeting have already begun invading the Internet, ignited by blogs saturated with speculation and incomplete information about a possible Higgs discovery.
The two teams searching for the elusive particle at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, are keeping quiet.
“Please be patient for a few more weeks,” says Guido Tonelli, spokesman for the Compact Muon Solenoid team. “We have just finished data taking, and people work day and night including weekends to reach a scientifically validated result.” Tonelli expects that CMS will have results ready to present, but says that “the pressure is huge.”
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