CERN announces discovery of Higgs Boson

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Submission + - CERN announces discovery of Higgs Boson (theverge.com)

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Diggester

on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @03:48AM

Diggester writes: "Scientists at CERN say they've found the Higgs particle with 5-sigma accuracy — about 1 in 3 million. Evidence of the particle's existence in the 126GeV mass range was gleaned from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva."

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