![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920044438im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Prelude to the Higgs: A Work for 2 Bosons in the Key of Z
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July 30, 2008
![physics graphic](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920044438im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/1physics_l.gif) | Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator. The properties of the ZZ diboson make its discovery an essential prelude to finding or excluding the Higgs boson at the Tevatron. Full story |
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