Recent content by John Peterson

So the required collision energy to observe a H is the sum of the Z (91.2 GeV) and H (125.3 GeV) masses, 216.5 GeV? Whats the minimum number of collisions (or samples) required to reach a five standard deviation significance for H existence? Tevatron place it at 125 GeV (halfway between their...

Could the Higgs boson have been confirmed with earlier accelerators? The LEP collider operated at a maximum of 209 GeV. Could it have been used to confirm the existence of the 125.3 GeV Higgs boson? I also read on Wikipedia that the CERN teams were apparently examining the 145–466 GeV range...