Physicists have moved to quash rumours that the elusive Higgs boson – dubbed the God particle – has been detected by a US “atom smasher”.
A spokesman for the lab which operated the Tevatron accelerator denied scientists had made a discovery there.
The Tevatron, based at Fermilab in Illinois, is the US rival to Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The rumours were made public in a blog post by an Italian particle physicist.
But a spokesman for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) told BBC News: “There is no merit to the rumours of a Higgs discovery.”
On Tuesday, Fermilab’s Twitter feed said: “Let’s settle this: the rumours spread by one fame-seeking blogger are just rumours. That’s it.”
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