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Tevatron's mystery signal grows stronger with more data

8 June 2011

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THIS bump won’t go away – and may even herald the birth of a particle that could change the world. A mystery signal glimpsed as a data “bump” from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider is here to stay for a while longer at least.

The team that reported it in April told a conference in Blois, France, last week that the signal was still present after nearly twice as much data had been analysed. “The odds of the first analysis being a statistical fluke are much less likely,” says Rob…

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