'If the God Particle Exists We Will Find it by Next Year,' Says CERN Boss Rolf Heuer

""'I think by this time next year I will be able to bring you either the Higgs boson or the message that it doesn't exist,' said Rolf Heuer, director general of CERN, whose LHC is at the focus of the search.  

He was echoed by KEK's Atsuto Suzuki and Pier Oddone of Fermilab, which last weekend shut off - after 26 years - its Tevatron accelerator, which has also been seeking the Higgs in the debris of billions of particle collisions.""

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""Reports in July seemed to indicate that the Higgs boson might have been detected among data the LHC.

But since then, those signals hinting it may have a mass between 120 and 140GeV look much less conclusive. 

Last month Guido Tonelli, a spokesman for the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector, a huge particle detector at CERN, said that even if the LHR was able to rule out the existence of the Higgs boson, that would be a major achievement in itself.""

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