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CERN split over collider closure

Dec 1, 2000

The decision by CERN to shut down its Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider last month after it had caught a glimpse of the Higgs boson, the "holy grail" of particle physics, has incensed and saddened physicists. Many researchers at the particle-physics laboratory are unhappy that the management has not given LEP an extension to operate in 2001, with evidence for the elusive particle having already increased by running the collider for a month longer than originally intended. The LEP researchers believe that the lab's director general, Luciano Maiani, has not provided convincing scientific reasons to support the closure.

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