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Life after the Higgs boson

We might have found the Higgs boson, but the search for new physics at the LHC isn't over yet.

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Particle hunting at the LHC
It's hard to avoid CERN these days. Last year's successful switch-on of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, followed by a blow-out which is currently being fixed, sparked wide-spread media coverage, and currently CERN stars in the Tom Hanks movie Angels and Demons. So what goes on at CERN and why the hubbub about the Large Hadron Collider, known as the LHC? Ben Allanach investigates.
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The LHC for dummies
The world's biggest physics experiment is due to start
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The search for Higgs
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