The Large Hadron Collider, a series of tunnels constructed deep underground on the Swiss-French border, is playing host to perhaps the most dramatic piece of scientific research of our era: the search for the Higgs boson particle. Operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...
physicsworld.com /cws/article/news/2012/jul/04/cern-discovers-higgs-like-bosonPhysicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the discovery of the Higgs boson – or at least a particle that resembles the Higgs. In two special seminars this morning at the CERN particle-phy...