A 15-month shutdown to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider is set to be delayed by a year to the end of 2012. The extended run will be used by scientists at the particle-physics laboratory CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, to hunt for the elusive Higgs particle at the collider's current collision energies. The plan is likely to be agreed by CERN s management and council in January. See page 876 for more.
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