US claims close to finding 'Grain of God'

New evidence suggests that 2012 will be the most probable year for physicists to find the legendary particle: the Higgs.

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Long ago, scientists still believe that the Higgs will help explain why all the different particles have weight. It is because of such an important significance that the media calls the Higgs the "seed of God ," even though the scientific community is not very keen on this name.

But despite years of searching, scientists have not been able to detect Higgs particles directly.

Scientists believe the time to find the Higgs is near

Now, physicists at the Tevatron County Accelerator Division of the Fermi National Laboratory have announced that their data have narrowed the Higgs particle trace significantly. Specifically, this particle can exist with a mass in the range of 115-135 giga-electron volts, or GeV (for comparison, a proton has a mass of about 0.938 GeV).

"We've got a very similar Higgs signature - not easy to explain if it's not the presence of a new particle ," said University of Michigan physicist Wade Fisher on LiveScience . "If it were really a Higgs, it would be a major milestone for the world's physics community and would lay the foundations for the most successful particle physics in history."

The theory that Fisher refers to is the Standard Model, which is very successful in describing all the known fundamental particles in the universe. The Higgs particle is the only remaining particle that is predicted to exist by this doctrine, but has never seen evidence exist in real life.

Earlier in December, scientists at the LHC, CERN (Switzerland), also claimed to have discovered clues to the existence of the Higgs.