Scientists using the Large Hadron Collider saw signs of a massive new particle, but the signal was just noise. | Christoph Balle/CERN
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Hundreds of scientific papers tried to explain a possible new particle made in proton collisions, illustrated here. | Thomas Mc Cauley/CERN
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