The Year of the Higgs?

The Year of the Higgs?
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:17:00 -0600

This February, researchers will renew their search for one of the universe's most elusive mysteries, the Higgs boson--a hypothetical particle that if found would give an insight into why particles have certain mass.

The search will take place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Higgs boson is the only remaining Standard Model particle that has not been ...

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