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Has the LHC found a hint of the Higgs boson?

27 April 2011

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ANOTHER week, another outbreak of particle fever. Just weeks after a potential new particle was reported at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, a leaked abstract suggests the Higgs boson may have been sighted at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva in Switzerland.

The smashes beams of protons together in the hope that somewhere in the detritus will be signs of new particles such as the Higgs, widely touted to endow all other particles with mass. Four physicists now say they may have seen such signs, according…

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