Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 11:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Two international teams of physicists have found subtle hints of what could be the Higgs boson , a particle whose existence would help explain why other particles have mass. The researchers today announced that they may have uncovered a whiff of the Higgs in data collected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) , the massive particle accelerator outside Geneva that accelerates protons to nearly light speed before smashing them together so physicists can sift through the wreckage for new particles and phenomena. [More]

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