Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva may finally have tracked down the elusive Higgs boson. Results announced today at CERN show that a new heavy particle has been identified, with all the properties expected of the Higgs. Bristol physicists working at the CMS experiment played a key role in establishing this exciting new result which is the culmination of twenty years’ work.

“If the Higgs has been finally identified, this will be the biggest discovery in particle physics for forty years,” said Dr Joel Goldstein, leader of the CMS activity in  Bristol's School of Physics.

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