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Jul 2012
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Higgs boson-like particle discovery clai...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider claim the discovery of the Higgs boson particle. Alan Barr of Oxford's Physics department, UK physics coordinator for LHC's ATLAS experiment, describes what it means for science. 
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