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CERN powers up Large Hadron Collider in final search for Higgs Boson

Dan Worth

14 February 2012 •

Beam energy to hit four teraelectron volts as organisation hopes for discovery in 2012

CERN's has announced it will increase the power of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to four teraelectron volts (TeV) this year, a 0.5 TeV bump from 2010 and 2011, in an attempt to find the elusive H...

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