Prof Hill himself is part of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) Collaboration at the LHC.
The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has weighed in on what the LHC will find first.
Dr. Ellis says he hasn't seen the data from the latest round of experiments at LHC.
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The LHC shut down last month for a long staycation full of maintenance and upgrades.
The Tevatron is also seeing the same type of interesting particle events as the LHC.
Refined data from the LHC collisions, released in March, put the range between 122.5 and 127.5 GeV.
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There are two general purpose experimental collaborations at the LHC, each of which has 3000 physicists working.
They passed the baton onto their counterparts using the LHC, which is much more powerful than the Tevatron.
While we're busy unraveling the mysteries of carbon and RNA, the LHC team is digging deeper... much deeper.
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The Tevatron and the LHC alone are powerful enough to probe energy ranges where the Higgs may reside.
And if they are too big, the LHC will not be able to find them, even in principle.
That would have been a delicious victory, as the LHC's first goal is the discovery of the Higgs.
"The LHC is more than just a one trick pony, " said Dr Wells.
Frustratingly, the LHC has now been shut down to allow for a major programme of repairs and upgrades.
Physicists hope that by operating at full power, the LHC will be able to find evidence of so-called supersymmetric particles.
The problem has been the connections between the giant magnets that help steer charged particles around the LHC's 27km-long ring.
The publication LHC (Large Hadron Collider) was co-published by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Lammerhuber and UNESCO Publishing.
There are many other, albeit more complex, versions of the theory that have not been ruled out by the LHC results.
Experimental physicists working at the LHC, such as Professor Nash, say the results are forcing their theoretical colleagues to think again.
The lightest of these dark-matter particles might pop up in the LHC.
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These experiments are happening at the same time that the LHC is colliding particles, and may find evidence of dark matter that way.
The LHC, which is based underground on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, is the only other competitor in the race to find the Higgs.
LHC's underground ring will spew out petabytes (billions of megabytes) of data per second enough to fill all the hard-drives in the world within days.
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Though this radiation is too weak to be detected by telescopes, it would be detectable if the LHC did make a tiny black hole.
One last major data release will occur at the Monriond Conference in March 2013 before data taking resumes at the full LHC energy in 2015.
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And the LHC is still discovering properties about the top quark.
Cern, the organisation which runs the LHC, has for some time been planning to shut down the machine in late 2011 for up to one year.
The interesting fluctuations seen at the Tevatron and the LHC are dominated by what might be the Higgs decaying into a pair of "W boson" particles.
But before examining why, it's always useful to see what lessons can be learned from the past, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provides a useful case study.
Originally conceived as a regional facility for Europe, the LHC has evolved into a research machine for the world, built in Europe with contributions from countries around the globe.
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