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CMS and the God particle

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The Compact Muon Solenoid - or CMS - experiment at the Large Hadron Collider will be hunting for the "holy grail" of physics.

The Higgs boson is a particle that could help to explain key questions about matter in the Universe.

BBC science correspondent David Shukman visited the experiment a few days before it was sealed up.

What is the Large Hadron Collider?
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