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April 26, Sunday -- "The Atom Smashers," a documentary on the search for the Higgs boson, will be screened at 7 p.m. in 194 Chemistry Building. The film follows scientists at Fermilab, Ill., as they search for the missing "God particle," using the Tevatron, a four-mile-long, 40-year-old particle accelerator buried beneath the prairie. However, a new, more powerful accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at Europe's CERN laboratory looms on the horizon. After the film, directors Clayton Brown and Monica Ross will answer questions from the audience. °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis professors John Conway and Robin Erbacher, who appear in the film, will also be on hand. "The Atom Smashers" premiered in Chicago in September 2008 and has been shown on PBS and at festivals. The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis screening is open to the public; tickets are $4 or free to students. The screening is sponsored by the High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative and the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis physics department. More information: (530) 752-4086 or visit .