Quantum Revelations: Unveiling New Layers of the Higgs Boson
New research confirms the Standard Model’s predictions about the Higgs boson while suggesting future data may reveal unknown aspects of particle physics. The Higgs boson…
Higgs Boson News
The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle, often referred to as the “God particle,” crucial in the Standard Model of particle physics. It is associated with the Higgs field, a field that is thought to permeate all of space and give mass to particles that interact with it. The existence of the Higgs boson and its field was proposed in the 1960s by physicist Peter Higgs and others, as a solution to the problem of where particles like protons and electrons get their mass. Its discovery was a pivotal goal of particle physics, culminating in 2012 when the Higgs boson was observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva. This discovery was a major milestone and confirmed a key component of the Standard Model, enhancing our understanding of the fundamental structure of the universe. The detection of the Higgs boson helped explain the origin of mass for elementary particles, which has profound implications across the field of physics.
Quantum Pioneers: How Magnetic Quivers Are Rewriting the Rules of Particle Physics
A simple concept of decay and fission of “magnetic quivers” helps to clarify complex quantum physics and mathematical structures. Researchers employed magnetic quivers to delve…
CERN Pays Tribute to Peter Higgs – “God Particle” Physicist Passes Away at 94
Peter Higgs, pivotal in the discovery of the “God Particle,” has died at the age of 94. His groundbreaking work, for which he received a…
The Muon Mystery: How a Decimal Place Could Redefine Physics
The researchers identified the origin of discrepancies in recent predictions of the muon’s magnetic moment. Their findings could contribute to the investigation of dark matter…
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…
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…