CERN manages expectations around Higgs rumors

One inverse femtobarn is equal to around 70 million million (70 x 10^12) collisions.

►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_(unit)
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/post_87.html

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Le CERN joue la prudence par rapport aux rumeurs qui enflent sur la découverte du boson de Higgs

Nature News Blog : CERN manages expectations around Higgs rumors
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/post_87.html

“These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the Summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs .”

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