Higgs boson: ‘God particle’ offers no evidence of new physics

Known in popular culture As a God particle, the Higgs Boson is considered one of the greatest discoveries of science. After being predicted by some physics models, scientists have finally been able to confirm that the particle is real. Much of the scientific community believes that the Boson could lead to new discoveries in physics, but a new study suggests that this is not necessarily the case.

It took researchers more than 40 years and $4.75 billion (about R$26.9 billion at current prices) to detect the God particle. But a team from the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Institute for Physics and RWTH Aachen University in Germany a study that claims to find no evidence of ‘hidden laws’ in current physics.

It seems that the Higgs boson mechanisms are not responsible for the formation of a new law, or even something simpler, that would change the parameters of human civilization. That is, The Higgs offers no visible evidence of new physics, at least not yet.

“The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was a milestone in particle physics. A comprehensive understanding of the newly discovered boson and all its properties is essential for the exploration of possible new physics scenarios. In this paper, we address these points, which allow us to calculate the interference effect for the fully comprehensive Higgs generating cross section at NNLO,” explains the study.

Higgs boson and new physics

In 2012, a team of scientists managed to detect the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in CERN, Switzerland, creating a new scenario in science. The new team of researchers conducted various analyses to understand the Higgs, but they say that everything seems to be as expected; if there really is something that could change modern physics, something strange must be happening in a different way than they expected.

Although it is increasingly clear that the Higgs Boson will not change science as we know it, Scientists will continue to try to understand whether the particle will create a new revolution in the field.To find a reaction that will revolutionize science, scientists will need to find some kind of ‘inconsistency’ with existing science.

“Therefore, there seems to be no visible sign of new physics within the mechanisms responsible for the formation of the Higgs bosons that we are investigating – at least not yet,” said physicist Rene Poncelet of the Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute for Nuclear Physics in Poland.

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