Finding the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass . `` We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature , '' scientist says . The U.S.-based scientists outlined their final analysis based on more than 10 years of research and 500 trillion particle collisions using the U.S. Department of Energy 's Fermilab Tevatron collider near Batavia , Illinois , whose budgetary woes shut it down last year . Comment: The simplest way to understand Researchers stress the preliminary nature of the results .
Finding the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass . `` We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature , '' scientist says . Comment: The simplest way to understand Researchers stress the preliminary nature of the results .