On November 13, 2012, at the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium in Kyoto, another round of data will be released, and it is expected to show additional confirmation that this is a Higgs boson.

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The physics machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, is a 17-mile hollow ring underneath Switzerland and France built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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It may be about to happen in particle physics - if neither the Tevatron nor Large Hadron Collider spots a Higgs boson soon, the standard model that scientists have worked with for years may have to be abandoned, or at least seriously reformed, and another built in its place.

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