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Published online 9 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070108-4
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Shrinking Higgs brings optimism to US lab
Tevatron gains renewed hope of bagging the particle that endows mass.
Physicists shooting to find the Higgs boson — the particle thought to endow all others with mass — have seen their target move, again. A new measurement of the mass of another subatomic particle, the W boson, has lowered the predicted mass of the Higgs.
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