Physicists hunt for five mysterious particles deep underground

Sunday, April 7, 2013 - 16:00 in Astronomy & Space

By Tia GhoseLiveScience While the world's largest atom smasher was busy finding the Higgs boson — the particle thought to explain why other particles have mass — physicists have been quietly building giant laboratories deep underground.No, scientists aren't hiding the next James Bond supervillain down there. Instead, they are working more than a mile beneath Earth's surface to find some of the ...

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