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New data suggest a lighter Higgs

Fermilab results heat up race for an elusive particle

By Ron Cowen

- More than 2 years ago

The God particle has fewer places to hide.

Combined data from two experiments at the Fermilab’s Tevatron particle accelerator indicate that the elusive Higgs boson — known as the God particle — does not have a mass between 158 and 175 GeV. Fermilab

New data offer evidence that the heft of the Higgs particle lies somewhere in the low end of the range being probed by particle colliders on two continents.