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Tevatron collider to shut down this year

12 January 2011

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THEN there was one. The ageing Tevatron collider is to bow out of the race to find the Higgs particle later this year. This leaves the task of discovering the particle thought to endow all others with mass to its rival, the Large Hadron Collider.

The Tevatron, based at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, was set to shut down in September 2011. But last year, a panel that advises the US government on physics matters the collider’s operations to 2014, if additional funds could be found.…

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