The accident occurred 10 years ago. On July 4, CERN got worldwide attention through a statement when they declared that they had launched a new atom that glimpsed very much like the Higgs boson. They were ready to set various benchmarks that year.
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It all happened because of the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, which broke many records and made history. Due to some technical errors, it had to be shut down for maintenance.
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Because the Higgs boson is extremely short-lived, scientists must look for evidence of its existence by recording its decay into various combinations of lighter particles predicted by the standard model.
The efforts of the ATLAS and CMS teams, which each included some 3000 physicists were organised around a complex chain of data analysis and crosschecks.
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