'Peter Higgs launches attack against Nobel rival Stephen Hawking' - The Times - September 11, 2008: “Professor Peter Higgs, the scientist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, the particle at the centre of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, launched a withering attack on Professor Stephen Hawking, saying his work was “not good enough”.” "Both men are contenders for the Nobel prize — depending on the outcome of the experiment — and their spat is likely to send shockwaves through the scientific Establishment." "Since he retired nearly 20 years ago, Professor Higgs, 79, has gradually detached himself from his academic world, preferring to read novels and play with his two grandchildren. He has, however, stayed in touch closely enough to pour scorn on the views of Professor Hawking and on scientists who predicted that the LHC might bring the end of the world." 'Crash Course' - The New Yorker - May 20, 2008: “If I occasionally neglect to cite a theorist, it’s not because I’ve forgotten,” Leon Lederman, another Nobel-winning experimentalist, writes in his chronicle of the search for the Higgs. “It’s probably because I hate him.” 'How the LHC came to be' - Nature.com 'Big Bang at the atomic lab after scientists get their maths wrong' - The Sunday Times: "Coincidentally, Fermilab stands to gain most from delays at Cern. Its researchers also operate a rival but less powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron. Fermilab staff are pushing the Tevatron to ever-higher energies hoping that they might find the Higgs boson before the LHC switches on. An LHC researcher said: “Ironically, this delay could be all they need.”" 'At Fermilab, the Race Is on for the ‘God Particle’' - New York Times: "Whatever the outcome for this particular Higgs rumor, the buzz about it illuminates the galloping expectations, tensions and rivalries roiling physicists as they await the inauguration next summer of the Large Hadron Collider, a giant accelerator at CERN, the nuclear laboratory outside Geneva expressly designed to find the Higgs particle and explore new realms of nature." 'Energising the quest for 'big theory'' - BBC News: "Atlas and CMS are designated "general purpose" detectors. They will both aim to identify the elusive Higgs boson (known as the "God particle" because of its importance to the Standard Model), look for so-called supersymmetric particles and seek out the existence of extra dimensions. As such, the scientists working on Atlas will to some extent be competing with those on CMS. Both teams aim to be first to find the Higgs, leaving the other to "verify" their discovery (a scientific euphemism, one suspects, for "eat humble pie")." The Large Hadron Collider Explained