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  • 'God particle' may have been seen

    03/11/2004 4:45:23 AM PST · by Momaw Nadon · 123 replies · 732+ views
    BBC News Online ^ | Wednesday, 10 March, 2004 | By Paul Rincon
    A scientist says one of the most sought after particles in physics - the Higgs boson - may have been found, but the evidence is still relatively weak. Peter Renton, of the University of Oxford, says the particle may have been detected by researchers at an atom-smashing facility in Switzerland. The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass and is fundamental to a complete understanding of matter. Dr Renton's assessment of the Higgs hunt is published in Nature magazine. "There's certainly evidence for something, whether it's the Higgs boson is questionable," Dr Renton, a particle physicist at Oxford,...