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…
Higgs Boson
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…
Physicists Propose Higgs Boson ‘Portal’ to Help Explain Dark Energy
A newly published study explores how the recently discovered Higgs boson may provide a possible “portal” to physics that will help explain some of the…
New Results Indicate That Particle Discovered at LHC is a Higgs Boson
After further review of the data from July’s particle discovery at the Large Hadron Collider, the new results point to the new particle having the…
Higgs Duality: Contradictory Results At LHC
The latest data presented by scientists on Higgs boson shows that separate measurements of its properties are showing two slightly different masses. The scientists at…
Truant Particles Dash Hopes of Clues to Supersymmetry from LHC
While Sherlock Holmes might have stated that the absence of any evidence is evidence itself, theoretical physicists haven’t yet been able to find any inkling…
Latest Data from Large Hadron Collider Gives No Inkling of New Physics
In July, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new particle that looked like the Higgs boson. This particle was never…
Looking Back at the Decades-Long Search for Higgs
With yesterday’s announcement of the likely discovery of the Higgs boson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory takes a moment to reflect on how we got to…
CERN Announces Discovery of Higgs-Like Particle in the 125 GeV Range
Too much fanfare, and a packed press room, CERN physicists announced in the early morning of July 4th the discovery of a new particle that…
Final Results on the Higgs Particle from Tevatron
Two days before the announcement of the latest Higgs-search results from the Large Hadron Collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their…
CERN to Announce the Latest Results from ATLAS and CMS
With the latest results from ATLAS and CMS set to be announced on July 4, there is a lot of speculation and excitement about what…
Higgs Boson Might Have Been Discovered by LHC High Energy Physicists
In the high energy physics community, rumor and speculation is rife that Large Hadron Collider scientists will announce the discovery of the Higgs boson during…
BaBar Data Suggests Possible Flaws in the Standard Model
Initial results from BaBar data suggest that a particular type of particle decay called “B to D-star-tau-nu” happens more often than the Standard Model says…
Discussing the Search for the Higgs Particle
Does the Higgs boson particle exits? What happens if we find it and what if we don’t? These are just a few of the questions…