V ANCOUVER Last fall, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois shut down for good . The long-running accelerator had been eclipsed by the vastly more powerful Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, which since 2010 has been generating data at an impressive rate. The move appeared to quash any hopes that Fermilab had of discovering the Higgs boson , the last great known unknown of modern particle physics.
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