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This can be the biggest discovery of this century after 40 years of research and 56 Thousand carores spending Physicists have discovered a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) declared Wednesday.
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A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. © CERN 2012
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As per to CERN, 2 independent teams noticed a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV at the level of 5 sigma, Xinhua described.
A lot more research and cross-checks is going to be, however, required to identify the exact character of the particle, scientists mentioned.
Image source: CERN official website photo release
