Each one of these pieces of data is called a particle event.
ENGADGET: AMS detects excess of positrons, could suggest existence of dark matter
As is often the case in particle physics, a fuller analysis of data will be required to establish beyond doubt that the particle is a Higgs of any kind.
Announcements by scientists about their analysis of data generated by trillions of particle collisions in the LHC, which is located beneath the Alps, drew avid applause at an eagerly awaited seminar in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
The latest CERN data suggests that the newly discovered particle appears to have no spin and positive parity.
For pollution levels, we used information from the American Lung Association's "State of the Air: 2007" report, which ranked the most polluted metropolitan areas by year-round particle pollution based on data submitted by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2003-05.
And AMS continues to gather data on about 1.4 billion particle events every month.
ENGADGET: AMS detects excess of positrons, could suggest existence of dark matter
Since its activation on May 19, 2011, AMS has collected detailed information on more than 31 billion particle events and downlinked this data for analysis by AMS collaboration scientists on Earth.
ENGADGET: AMS detects excess of positrons, could suggest existence of dark matter
CERN's initial data suggests that is true for the new particle.
The ALA analyzed the data based on ozone pollution, short-term particle pollution and year-round particle pollution.
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 search for Higgs got its biggest boost in December when researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, near Geneva, Switzerland, said that data from two independent experiments had narrowed the range of the would-be particle's likely mass to between 124 and 126 gigaelectronvolts, or GeV.
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