IT SEEMS the gloves are off in the race to find the Higgs boson.
Teams at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, have recently issued a spate of bold announcements about their search for the Higgs, which is thought to give other particles mass. For example, they claim that the Tevatron has a 50:50 chance of finding the particle.
Some researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, due to power up later this year, have apparently had enough. In a talk at CERN last week, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich of exaggerating…
