LHC releases first Higgs search results

LHC releases first Higgs search results

13:41 2 March 2011

Physics & Math

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Kate McAlpine, contributor


The Higgs boson, the elusive particle thought to give all others mass, is the most hyped of all the discoveries that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is expected to make. Now the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC has cast its first glance on this prize.

Excitement must be tempered. The LHC, at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, can't yet compete with the Tevatron at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, in hunting for the Higgs as predicted by the standard model, particle physics's most successful framework.

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