A strange, mysterious phenomenon may have been found hiding in a data bump in the dynamic world of high energy physics. And it isn't the God Particle ( And God, I hate that term!):
Most agree that the mysterious particle is not the long-sought Higgs boson, believed by many to endow particles with mass. "It's definitely not a Higgs-like object," says Rob Roser, a CDF spokesperson at Fermilab. If it were, the bump in the data would be 300 times smaller. What's more, a Higgs particle should most often decay into bottom quarks, which do not seem to make an appearance in the Fermilab data.
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