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Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment

“A Princeton senior has found a bug in the hardware design for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the hardware used to record and capture events in the LHC, she discovered errors that were leading to the appearances of double images because of particle streams known as jets. [...]

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Race For the “God Particle” Heats Up

Race For the “God Particle” Heats Up: “SpuriousLogic writes ‘CERN is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, its American rival claims. Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best. CERN’s Lyn Evans admitted the accident [...]

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