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GRENOBLE, France (AP) — Physicists expect the world’s largest atom
smasher to find a long-sought theoretical new particle – or rule
out that it exists – by the end of 2012.
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Rolf Heuer, director of the European particle physics laboratory
near Geneva, predicted Monday that “toward the end of next year,
you will have an answer.”
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He told reporters at a major physics conference that new research
at the $10 billion collider under the Swiss-French border has
helped pinpoint the precise level of high energy where the new
particle is expected to be found.
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The Higgs boson isn’t just any particle.
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It’s the linchpin of the standard model of particle physics that
explains the Big Bang theory, and is believed to give mass to other
other objects and creatures in the Universe.
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