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Higgs Boson Discovered
-In July, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider ended a 5-decade-long search when they announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. This long-sought particle is responsible for giving all other subatomic elements, such as protons and electrons, their mass, and was the final piece in the Standard Model, which describes the interactions of all known particles and forces. While LHC researchers were cautious, only calling their results a “Higgs-like” particle until more data and analysis is available, the finding was widely hailed as the most important fundamental physics discovery in more than a generation.
-And the story is far from over. Scientists had been hoping that spotting the Higgs would also provide their first glimpse of physics beyond the Standard Model, which has various problems and inconsistencies that need fixing. But the particle has so far proved to be stubbornly normal, with little to no deviation from what was predicted under the Standard Model. The LHC will shut down for repairs and upgrades next year, returning in 2015 to probe the subatomic universe at higher energy scales and hopefully turn up even more interesting phenomena.
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