If the Higgs is too heavy to be seen by the existing accelerator, called LEP, the Fermi lab's upgraded machine will have a shot at it.
The trouble for the Geneva scientists is that an upgraded machine at Fermi may be powerful enough to make the discovery first, after beginning operation next spring.
But it should also be just within reach of an upgraded machine at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago, which is scheduled to be finished in the spring and could therefore make the discovery first.
Such physics will be made accessible by substantial additions to the experimental equipment in combination with the increased energy reach of the upgraded machine.
It has been proposed to increase the luminosity of the large hadron collider (LHC) at CERN by an order of magnitude, with the upgraded machine dubbed super-LHC.
I find working on the new upgraded machine much more fun than the previous version of Windows 98. Plus it helped me optimize the programs I used often, gave me an update of the McAfee antivirus software and removed all unwanted folders, courtesy of the CyberMedia function.
Another company in the upgrade business, PowerLeap (www.powerleap.com), offers a $170 product that can upgrade machines that have a relatively slow Pentium II, III or Celeron processor by substituting an Intel Celeron processor that runs at up to 1.4 gigahertz.
The measure allows states with punch-card and lever voting systems to receive money to buy upgraded machines and requires provisional voting, which allows people who do not appear on election rolls but say they are eligible to vote to cast a ballot.
The proposed scheme is backward compatible with the existing ARP protocol and incrementally deployable with benefits to the upgraded machines.
