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expert reaction to new results about Higgs-like particle discovered at CERN

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary results that indicated the particle discovered last year behaves like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. 

 

Prof Paddy Regan, Professor of  Nuclear Physics, University of Surrey, said:

“The proposed Higgs boson fundamental particle measured to be consistent with the standard model assumption just goes to show how good a description of the subatomic world the standard model is. Other big issues such as the nature of dark matter look like they might need other experiments in other size and energy regimes to unravel.”

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