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Science 12 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5502, pp. 259 - 260
DOI: 10.1126/science.1057739
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Perspectives

Also see the archival list of Science's Compass: Enhanced Perspectives

PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Enhanced: The Search for the Higgs Boson

Michael Riordan, P. C. Rowson, Sau Lan Wu

In 2000, intriguing indications of the direct production of a Higgs boson were reported by CERN researchers. This particle is important because it is the manifestation of the energy field thought to endow most elementary particles with mass. In their Perspective, Riordan et al. discuss the experiments performed to date to catch a glimpse of this elusive particle and determine its mass. Future experiments will access even higher energies than today's particle accelerators and should finally settle the questions of its existence and mass.

M. Riordan is at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA 94309, USA, and the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. P. C. Rowson is at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and a member of the SLAC Large Detector collaboration. S. L. Wu is at SLAC and Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1390, USA, and a member of the ALEPH collaboration at CERN. E-mail for correspondence: michael@slac.stanford.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)