While initial number-crunching at CERN suggests the new particle has spin zero, more proof is needed.
The theory predicts the existence of a new particle, which also carries Prof Higgs' name.
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What could happen in beta decay is another elusive issue, but a new particle could be implicated there.
The discovery of this new particle is notable for what it tells us, but also for what it doesn't.
However, if the new particle doesn't have positive parity, then things get a lot more interesting at least from a physicist's point of view.
For example, the rate at which the new particle is produced seems to be slightly higher than the one predicted in the Standard Model.
CERN's initial data suggests that is true for the new particle.
Nonetheless, it remains to be seen whether the new particle is the Higgs boson of the standard model, or one of several other bosons predicted by other theories of physics.
It is an exclusive club and now also includes Professor Peter Higgs, who predicted a new particle, the Higgs Boson, in the 1960s, and this year the particle was proved to exist.
The results reported at the conference - based on the entire data sets from 2011 and 2012 - much more strongly suggest that the new particle's "spin" is zero - consistent with any of the theoretical varieties of Higgs.
The Higgs is a fundamentally new type of elementary particle that we have never seen before.
Now, new calculations frame the particle as not only cause for frowns, but an indicator of the end of the universe as we know it.
The simplest form - that which fits neatly into the existing Standard Model of particle physics - would surely shore up the theory, but the possible existence of more "exotic" versions of the particle would open exciting new vistas in science.
He is the new official spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment, a particle physics experiment at CERN.
Dr Kobayashi and Dr Maskawa, who were at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation and Kyoto University respectively, described a type of symmetry breaking that predicted two new families of quarks, a sort of subatomic particle whose simplest members are the ingredients of the protons and neutrons that form atomic nuclei.
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The architects worked with Pureti, a green-tech manufacturer (and winner of a 2011 "What's New" award from Popular Science), to develop a spray version of a titanium nano particle that, when activated by sunlight, oxidizes airborne particulates and converts them into water vapor and trace amounts of carbon dioxide.
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