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Published online 3 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070402-3
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Magnet failure could delay hunt for Higgs
Fermilab admits it is to blame for design fault.
Construction of the world's most powerful particle collider has been hit by the sudden failure of a key part of the device.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), based at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, is due to start generating data in the summer of 2008.
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