Author: Maria Temming / Source: Science News
Physicists awaiting approval to build the world’s first “Higgs factory” will have to wait a while longer.
Japan had been expected to decide by March 7 whether it would host the International Linear Collider — a particle smasher that would produce subatomic particles called Higgs bosons far more efficiently than CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Instead, Japanese officials encouraged the International Committee for Future Accelerators, which oversees the ILC project, to…
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