second Higgs boson? Physicists debate new particle

The mass of the Higgs boson particle, possibly uncovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, may mean doom for our universe. Here, proton-proton collisions at the LHC showing events consistent with the Higgs. (CERN/CMS/Taylor, L; McCauley, T)

DENVER –  The discovery of the Higgs boson is real. But physicists are cagey about whether the new particle they’ve found will fit their predictions or not.

So far, the data suggest that the Higgs, the particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass, is not presenting any surprises, physicists said Saturday at the April meeting of the American Physical Society. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t in the future — or that there might not be other Higgs bosons lurking out there.

“There’s a large number of theoretical models that predict, actually, that this Higgs field is more complicated,” said Markus Klute, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of these theories predict five or more Higgs bosons of  SEE- http://alien-ufo-community.ning.com/forum/topics/a-second-higgs-boson-physicists-debate-new-particle