|
Looking for the Higgs 捕获希格斯粒子 Enemy in sight? 敌军现身? The search for the Higgs boson is closing in on its quarry 希格斯玻色子的研究逼近其目标 ON JULY 22nd two teams of researchers based at CERN, Europe s main particle-physicslaboratory, near Geneva, told a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble thatthey had found the strongest hints yet that the Higgs boson does, in fact, exist. 7月22日，驻欧洲粒子物理研究所的两组研究人员在格勒诺布尔欧洲物理协会的一次会议上声称，他们已经得到迄今为止最有力的线索，将力证希格斯玻色子的确真实存在。 The Higgs is thelast unobserved part of the Standard Model, a 40-year-old theory which successfullydescribes the behaviour of all the fundamental particles and forces of nature bar gravity. 希格斯粒子 是 基础模型 中最后一个尚未观测到的组件， 基础模型 已有40年的历史，它成功地描述了所有基础粒子的行为及除重力以外的所有自然力。 Mathematically, the Higgs is needed to complete the model because, otherwise, none of theother particles would have any mass. 在数学层面上，希格斯粒子对于完成 模型 是必不可少的，这是因为，一旦缺少它，所有的其它粒子都将会失去质量。 | 
