Science Editor Roger Highfield explains the
Large Hadron Collider experiment and what it is seeking to prove.
At a
specially-arranged seminar at the Cern laboratory in Geneva, researchers
presented clues in their data which suggest experts may have pinned down the
"God particle" at last.
Scientists
remained cautious about their findings and insisted they did not represent an
official discovery, but admitted the results were "intriguing".
The two
teams searching for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider said they had found hints which point
towards a Higgs boson with a mass between 124 and 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
A mass
of 125 GeV is equivalent to about 130 times the weight of a proton found in the
nucleus of an atom.
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