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LHC energy boost will aid hunt for Higgs boson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17025708Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will increase the energies of the bunches of subatomic particles called protons that it smashes together.
The boost should improve the collider's chances of discovering "new physics" and definitively confirming or denying the existence of Higgs boson particle.
The proton beams' energies will be increased by 14%, for a total collision energy of 8 trillion electron volts.
The announced increase will break the LHC's own high-energy record.
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