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A leaked document according to Daily Telergraph contains unconfirmed reports that one of the detectors at the Large Hardon Collider at CERN near Geneva had picked up signals that could be the long sought after particle called 'Higgs Boson'. Last week we saw at Fermi lab the experiment that contradicted the existence of Higgs Boson I reported here 

Where the Large Hardon Collider is trying to explain the missing links and resolve all the questions left unanswered by the standard model as it stands - For example, one of them is about the Big Bang Theory where physicists assume that at the high energies found in the early universe, the fundamental forces of nature were unified into a single superforce. Supersymmetry, physicists' leading contender for a theory beyond the standard model, paves a way for the forces to unite at high energies, but technicolour does not. So more experiments are required to see which theory is true.

These rumours about the scientists working on the LHC had found evidence of the Higgs boson began to circulate after an supposed internal memo was posted on the internet. However, physicists were quick to urge caution over the claims as many candidates for the particle that appear in collision experiments at the LHC are subsequently dismissed on further examination.

The rumours are also in conflict with the recent finding at FermiLab. Nevertheless the memo has revealed that one of the particle detectors at the LHC had caught a particle that could be a Higgs boson decaying into other two high-energy particles known as photons. Also the rate at which this happened was thirty times larger than would have been expected and this extrapolates as the first definitive observation of physics beyond the standard model.

On 22nd of April LHC released a Press Release about the CERN1's Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a Hadron Collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 × 1032cm-2s-1. This exceeds the previous world record of 4.024 × 1032cm-2s-1, which was set by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron collider in 2010, and marks an important milestone in LHC commissioning.

"Beam intensity is key to the success of the LHC, so this is a very important step," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. "Higher intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential."

The current LHC run is scheduled to continue to the end of 2012. That will give the experiments time to collect enough data to fully explore the energy range accessible with 3.5 TeV per beam collisions for new physics before preparing the LHC for higher energy running. By the end of the current running period, for example, we should know whether the Higgs boson exists or not.

Predictions of mini black holes forming at collision energies of a few teraelectronvolts (TeV) were based on theories that consider the gravitational effects of extra dimensions of space. Although the holes were expected to evaporate quickly, some suggested that they might linger long enough to consume the planet. But scientists at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector now say they found no signs of mini black holes at energies of 3.5–4.5 TeV. Physicist Guido Tonelli, the detector's spokesperson, says that by the end of the next run, the LHC should be able to exclude the creation of black holes almost entirely.

It was always considered that the possible creation of tiny, particle-sized black holes would be more exciting than the discovery of Higgs Boson, who's function is giving mass to the particles of matter. Real data from these experiments will rewrite the theorists' Guide to the Quantum Universe.

According to current physics these nano black holes could not be created at the energy levels the LHC is capable of producing. They could only be created if a parallel universe actually exists, providing the extra gravitation needed to generate the nano black holes. 

This is where the maths gets highly complex and speculative and therefore, this kind of science borders on Science Fiction which was the reason that we needed expensive experiments to test the theories.