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The Higgs particle remains "the last not-yet-observed piece of the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model of Particles and Forces," but Fermilab physicists at the Paris International Conference on High Energy Physic show data which support "improved non-observation" and an "immense progress" on the Higgs' search. Fermilab's experiments "narrow the allowed mass range value for Higgs boson" and the race to be the first to spot the Higgs between the Tevatron teams at Fermilab and the LHC teams at the European particle physics laboratory (CERN) continue to be on as the possibility of finding the "goddamn particle" is seemingly closer.   

Guido Tonelli,  spokesman for CMS, looks favourably at the prospective of Tevatron and LHC working as "complementary" machines for the next 2 or 3 years --  assuming that the Tevatron continue to run, which is currently being debated and not yet decided.

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