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18 July 2023

The Higgs Boson and the Origin of Mass

We are in 2012, near Geneva. Two beams of protons are traveling in opposite directions through the 27-kilometre ring of the largest machine ever built. The aim is to make them collide at almost the speed of light to observe an elusive particle that scientists have been looking for nearly 50 years. Do you know which particle it is?