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July 07, 2014

University scientists unraveling nature of Higgs boson
Manhattan KS (SPX) Jul 01, 2014
New physics research involving Kansas State University faculty members has helped shed light on how our universe works. A recently published study in the journal Nature Physics reports scientists have found evidence that the Higgs boson - a fundamental particle proposed in 1964 and discovered in 2012 - is the long sought-after particle responsible for giving mass to elementary particles. "In nature, there are two types of particles: fermions and bosons," said Ketino "Keti" Kaadze, a research assoc ... read more

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