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The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
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Higgs boson
Elementary particle involved with rest mass
The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Large Hadron Collider
Particle accelerator at CERN, Switzerland
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008, in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists, and hundreds of universities and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
CERN
European research centre in Switzerland
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Geneva, on the France–Switzerland border. It…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)