Can the Cool Copper Collider Redefine Energy Efficiency in Particle Physics?
The future of experimental particle physics is exciting – and energy intensive. SLAC physicists are thinking about how to make one proposal, the Cool Copper…
Higgs Boson News
Originally theorized in 1964, the Higgs boson was a way to explain how some particles could gain mass at lower energies. At SciTechDaily.com, we have the latest news about the discovery of this particle in 2012 at CERN and the resulting research into particle physics.
Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Experiment Sets Record Precision on Higgs Boson’s Mass
New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%. The ATLAS collaboration has achieved the most precise measurement to date…
Higgs Boson Unveils New Secrets: Rare Decay Detected at Large Hadron Collider
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson…
The Higgs Boson Mystery: When Nature Defies Expectations
Where does the Higgs boson come from? The CERN Theoretical Physics department hosted a workshop to explore unconventional explanations for the Higgs boson’s properties and…
Marking the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery
Christoph Paus, the MIT physicist who co-led the effort to detect the particle, looks ahead to the next 10 years. July 4, 2022, marked 10…
Physicists Discover Elusive New Particle Through Tabletop Experiment
Materials that contain the axial Higgs mode could serve as quantum sensors to evaluate other quantum systems and help answer persistent questions in particle physics….
Homing In on the Higgs Boson’s Interaction With the Charm Quark at the Large Hadron Collider
New ATLAS and CMS analyses place tight limits on the strength of the Higgs boson’s interaction with the charm quark. Since the discovery of the…
Large Hadron Collider ATLAS and CMS Collaborations Chase the Invisible With the Higgs Boson
The collaborations have set stringent new bounds on the fraction of Higgs bosons transforming into invisible particles. The Higgs boson lives for an extremely short…
A Crunching Multiverse To Solve Two Fundamental Physics Puzzles at Once
A duo of theorists proposes a new theory to explain both the surprisingly small mass of the Higgs boson and the puzzling symmetry properties of…
Large Hadron Collider: Could the Higgs Boson Decay Into Dark Matter?
Probing Dark Matter With the Higgs Boson Visible matter – everything from pollen to stars and galaxies – accounts for roughly 15% of the total…
Large Hadron Collider Detects Evidence of a Rare Higgs Boson Process: God Particle Decaying Into a Pair of Muons
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider have seen evidence of a new type of decay not yet observed: the Higgs boson…
CERN Searches for Matter–Antimatter Asymmetry in the Higgs Boson–Top Quark Interaction
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction. Recent years have seen the study…
ATLAS Experiment Observes the Decay Signature of the Higgs Boson
The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has – at long last – observed the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of bottom…
Physicists Detect Higgs Boson Via Decay In Two Bottom Quarks
In a finding that caps years of exploration into the tiny particle known as the Higgs boson, researchers have traced the fifth and most prominent…
A Possible Solution to the Mystery of the Origin of Matter in the Universe
A new study from UCLA physicists offers a possible solution to the mystery of the origin of matter in the universe. Most of the laws…
Study Investigates Interaction Between the Higgs Particle and Gravity
A newly published study details how the spacetime curvature provided the stability needed for the universe to survive after the Big Bang. Studies of the…
Higgs Boson May Explain the Earliest Expansion of the Universe
In a newly published study, physicists propose that the Higgs boson, which was recently confirmed to be the origin of mass, may also be responsible…
New CERN Research Details Evidence of the Direct Decay of the Higgs Boson to Fermions
New research published in Nature Physics details strong evidence of the direct decay of the Higgs boson to fermions. If evidence of the Higgs boson…