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The Higgs Boson Is Still Missing, But The LHC Just Found Its First New Particle

11:32PM December 22, 2011 | Jamie Condliffe

Since it was opened in 2009, the LHC has been helping prove whether the Higgs boson exists or not. Scientists are not there yet, but they have just found the LHC’s first new particle: Chi-b 3P. More »


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Scientists Looking for the Force Finally Put CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to Good Use

1:30AM February 23, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

CERN’s scientists, the fine people who brought us the W and Z particles, anti-hydrogen atoms and hyperlinked porn sites web pages, are now hard at work building the Large Hadron Collider to discover something even cooler: the Force. Yes, that Force. Or like physicists call it, the Higgs boson, a particle that carries a field which interacts with every living or inert matter, which could bring us closer to understanding how the Universe works: