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Cornering the Higgs boson

11 Oct 2012

Michael Riordan continues his look back on the Higgs boson search with the early attempts to hunt it down at the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider

Tunnel vision
In one sense, the Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider at CERN could have been considered a

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Michael Riordan, author of The Hunting of the Quark, is based in Eastbound, WA, US. This feature continues on from "The long road to the Higgs boson", which described the hunt for the Higgs up to the year 2000
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