"That is the biggest mismatch ever between theory and experiment in the history of physics, " Mr. Kaku admits, chuckling.

WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Michio Kaku: Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow

The Higgs boson is the only particle theorized by the standard model of physics that hasn't been conclusively observed in an experiment.

WSJ: New Data Boosts Case for Higgs Boson Find

The AMS project began in 1994, when Professor Samuel Ting, a Nobel laureate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was considering a new high-energy physics experiment.

ENGADGET: AMS detects excess of positrons, could suggest existence of dark matter

Tom Shanks, Professor of Physics at the University of Durham, UK, thinks the experiment is a modern version of Sir Arthur Eddington's historic eclipse expedition.

BBC: Test for Einstein's gravity speed theory

An international experiment with anti-neutrinos may hold the key to solving one of the great mysteries of physics.

FORBES: Anti-Neutrinos May Hold The Key To Solving Physics Mystery

"This is the start of a new story of physics, " said Tony Weidberg, Oxford University physicist and a collaborator on the Atlas experiment.

BBC: LHC cements Higgs boson identification

There's still plenty of exciting new physics for CERN to discover and Professor Charlton will be leading arguably its most successful experiment into the future.

BBC: Higgs boson discovered. What next for CERN laboratory?