Re the Higgs-Boson particle (emphasis mine) …
"The data comes courtesy of Tevatron, a smaller accelerator 4 miles in circumference. Located on the FermiLab grounds just east of Batavia, Ill., Tevatron was long the world's most powerful accelerator. Its tests actually wrapped up last year, before the accelerator was permanently shut down, after the U.S. decided being a world leader in scientific research was no longer among its spending priorities.
But Tevatron's last hurrah has offered a tantalize tease of what lies ahead with the LHC. Taking 10 years worth of data involving approximately 500 trillion particle collisions, the FermiLab teams offered up signs of elusive particle.
If only Goldman-Sachs bonuses had been linked to Tevatron discoveries …
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Tevatron presents strong evidence Higgs boson was observed, but LHC needed to provide final verification
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