New boson discovered, probably Higgs
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A proton-proton collision observed by CMS produces two high-energy photons - behavior consistent with the decay of a Higgs boson (Image: CERN)
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Numbers are yet to be crunched and the data analysis goes on, but one thing appears to be certain: scientists at CERN have discovered a new boson, and it's probably the Higgs particle, the missing particle of the Standard Model which is thought to lend all matter its mass. Both the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN observe a new particle with mass between 125 and 126 GeV, comfortably within the band of possible Higgs masses previously identified.
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