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The so-called 'particles of God' abound in the Universe

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fermilab Experiments carried out by American researchers at the Tevatron particle accelerator suggest that in the Universe there are up to five versions of the so-called 'God particle' or 'Higgs boson' , a theoretically predicted element, thanks to which matter acquires mass, and that it could solve key questions about the origin of the Cosmos.

Specifically, the researchers Bogdan Dobrescu, Adam Martin and Patrick Fox carried out the DZero experiment with the Tevatron accelerator from Fermilab (USA), second in the world for its power, making protons and antiprotons collide. And from the results they came to the conclusion that there may be at least five "particles of God" and not one, as was thought to date. Of those five bosons, three would be neutrally charged, one positively charged, and one negatively charged .

The search for the Higgs Boson is also the main target of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) , which recreates conditions that existed 13 billion years ago, just after the Big Bang.

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