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Published online 8 May 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070508-3
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Particle physicists hunt for the unexpected
How do you search for something when you don't know what you're looking for?
Most physicists at Illinois-based Fermilab, home to the world's most powerful particle collider, share a dream. They hope against hope that the Tevatron will find the long-sought Higgs particle before the much more powerful Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN — the European particle-physics laboratory outside Geneva, Switzerland — comes along in a year or so and eats their lunch.
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