Fulfilling expectations is normally a good thing. But
the fact that the newly discovered Higgs boson is behaving exactly as
expected is cutting its chances of lighting a path to new physics.
The world rejoiced in July when physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN announced a new particle
with some, but not all, of the properties predicted for the Higgs. It
was the final member of the standard model of particle physics left to
be discovered.
Questions quickly followed the
confetti. The particle was not observed directly but through the
particles it should decay into, not all of which were seen. This raised
hopes that the Higgs might have different properties to those prescribed by the standard model.
Because the model is known to be lacking – it offers no explanations
for gravity or dark matter – such deviations might provide clues to
these mysterious entities.
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