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Science 17 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5495, p. 1274
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5495.1274a
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
The Final Tally Leaves LEP a Probable Loser

Oliver Morton

LONDON--Physicists at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, are making a last-ditch appeal to postpone demolition of the lab's Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider. Scheduled to be scrapped in September to make room for a new device, the Large Hadron Collider, LEP was granted a 1-month stay of execution so physicists could continue experiments hinting at evidence for the Higgs boson--a theoretical particle that physicists have coveted for decades. On 8 November, CERN's director-general turned down a further extension, but the executive committee of the lab's staff association blasted the decision, saying that the case against LEP had not been made clearly enough.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)