Large Hadron Collider generated a year’s worth of data in half a year’s time.
LHC has already collected 2.5 inverse femtobarns - the equivalent of 175,000 billion collisions.
“We could discover the Standard Model version of the Higgs Boson or exclude it earlier than expected. Could we discover it by Christmas? In principle, yes,” said LHC spokesman, Professor Guido Tonell
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