Nothing is official yet, but it looks like the new particle detected in July in experiments conducted at the CERN Large Hadron Collider may indeed be the Higgs boson or so-called "God particle," scientists announced Thursday at a physics conference in Geneva. The scientists have analyzed two-and-a-half times more data on their discovery than what was available last summer. However, they aren't sure yet whether this is the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, or the lightest of several bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model.
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