[h=3]By GAUTAM NAIK[/h]
Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesBritish physicist Peter Higgs arrives Wednesday for the opening of the seminar near Geneva, Switzerland.
Physicists said they had discovered a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson, a long-sought particle crucial to scientists' current understanding of how the universe is built, although they will need additional data to pin it down with near absolute certainty.
Joe Incandela, leader of one of the teams, told scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, that the new particle was definitely a boson and the heaviest boson ever found.
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Physicists said they had discovered a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson, a long-sought particle crucial to scientists' current understanding of how the universe is built, although they will need additional data to pin it down with near absolute certainty.
Joe Incandela, leader of one of the teams, told scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, that the new particle was definitely a boson and the heaviest boson ever found.
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