From Jacksonville, Fla., at a meeting of the American Physical Society
If it exists, the Higgs boson would explain why matter has mass. A new particle accelerator due to start operations next year at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva should finally find the Higgs, physicists say.
The more powerful an accelerator, the more energetic the particles it smashes together and the heavier the particles that those collisions can create.
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