'God particle' looking 'more and more' like Higgs: scientists

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Mar 07 2013, 15:31 IST
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the 1960s, which would complete the Standard Model of particle physics, or it could be a more exotic

particle that would lead us beyond the Standard Model.

The stakes are high. The Standard Model accounts for all the visible matter in the Universe, including the stuff that we are made of, but it does not account for the 96 per cent of the Universe that is invisible to us - the dark universe.

Finding out what kind of Higgs it is will rely on carefully measuring the particle's interactions with other particles, and that may take several years to resolve.

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