Physicists say Particle at LHC is Indeed Higgs Boson

Physicists from Large Hadron Collider said that they have new evidence that shows that the particle discovered in July 2012 is indeed the Higgs Boson- the subatomic particle that's associated with mechanism that gives mass to particles. The next step, physicists say, will be to identify the type of Higgs Boson.

                                                                                                   
However, researchers say that whether the current particle is the one postulated by the Standard Model or is something beyond the model isn't yet known. The Standard Model theorizes that the Higgs Boson will have no spin and its parity should be positive (parity is the measure of behavior of its mirror images). Physicists have found a similar no spin and positive parity in this particle, suggesting that this might be the Higgs Boson.

Researchers said that they have now analyzed two and a half times more data than what was available during July, 2012- when CERN scientists had first reported the discovery of the particle from LHC.

"The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," Joe Incandela, spokesperson for CMS said in a statement.

The preliminary data that confirms the finding of the Higgs Boson was presented at the Moriond Conference by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

"The beautiful new results represent a huge effort by many dedicated people. They point to the new particle having the spin-parity of a Higgs boson as in the Standard Model. We are now well started on the measurement programme in the Higgs sector," said Dave Charlton, spokesperson for ATLAS.