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Updated: 10:50 a.m. EDT (1450 GMT) October 6, 2001

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Interior tunnel in the supercollider

'God Particle' discovered at SSC

Today, the leadership of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, led by Roy Schwitters, announced that the particle accelerator has had their first successful observation of the Higgs Boson, a particle that helps better understand the state of matter, including dark matter.

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