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Thursday, December 8, 2011

'Significant progress' made in search for God particle: CERN announcement ignites storm of excitement among physicists

It’s the Holy Grail for physicists – and now there’s growing excitement that the first signs of the ultra-elusive Higgs boson particle have been detected by teams working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Existence of the particle - believed to have given shape to the universe after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago - was proposed some four decades ago.

Two separate LHC teams – using the ATLAS and CMS detectors – have smashed protons in 350 trillion collisions this year, hoping to see the Higgs in the debris.

Heavy duty: The 13,000-ton CMS detector is one of two being used by CERN to find the 'God particle'

Heavy duty: The 13,000-ton CMS detector is one of two being used by CERN to find the 'God particle'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2071507/Higgs-boson-particle-close-says-CERN.html

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