Oh! Look! The Higgs! If only we'd known it has been hiding behind this door all along.
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Hooray for Higgs
"It's a great day for particle physics," says Ben Allanach, a theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge. "It's very exciting, I think we're on the verge of the Higgs discovery." And indeed, it seems like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has given particle physics an early Christmas present — compelling evidence that the famous Higgs boson exists.
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Countdown to the Higgs
Finding the Higgs: Ben Allanach explains it is not about catching a glimpse of the beast itself, but instead keeping a careful count of the evidence it leaves behind.
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Particle hunting at the LHC
What goes on at CERN and why the hubbub about the Large Hadron Collider, known as the LHC?
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The LHC for dummies
A quick overview of the world's biggest physics experiment.