Shrinking Higgs brings optimism to US lab

Tevatron gains renewed hope of bagging the particle that endows mass.

Physicists shooting to find the Higgs boson — the particle thought to endow all others with mass — have seen their target move, again. A new measurement of the mass of another subatomic particle, the W boson, has lowered the predicted mass of the Higgs.

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Shrinking Higgs brings optimism to US lab

Tevatron gains renewed hope of bagging the particle that endows mass.

Physicists shooting to find the Higgs boson — the particle thought to endow all others with mass — have seen their target move, again. A new measurement of the mass of another subatomic particle, the W boson, has lowered the predicted mass of the Higgs.

Read the story here.

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