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  • Final collisions, new horizons

    Final collisions, new horizons

    This article first appeared on the CERN website here: https://home.cern/final-collisions-new-horizons/ After 12 years in operation, a record amount of data and thousands of scientific results, the LHC is taking a break.

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  • Higgs and the holy grail of physics

    Our understanding of physical reality — of everything and nothing — has changed forever.

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  • Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe

    Signaling a likely end to one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science, physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe.

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  • Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC

    Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

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  • LHC gets first glimpse of excited baryon

    Another day, another particle.

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  • Large Hadron Collider Discovers Beautiful New Particle

    Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters claiming that they’d discovered a new Baryon particle.

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  • CERN discovers new particle

    Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator have discovered their first brand-new baryon, a particle consisting of three quarks.

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  • New “beauty baryon” particle discovered at world’s largest atom smasher

    A never-before-seen subatomic particle has popped into existence inside the world’s largest atom smasher, bringing physicists a step closer to unraveling the mystery of how matter is put together in the universe.

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  • New Particle Discovered with ‘Higgs Boson’ Machine

    Scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, aka the “big bang machine”, announced Friday they’ve discovered a brand new particle during one of their experiments.

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  • CERN Particle Accelerator Reveals Previously Unknown Particle

    It has not discovered the Higgs Boson — not yet, anyway — but the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator has revealed a never-before-discovered particle comprised of three quarks.

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