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…
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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 Boson
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
To 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 are 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…
More Data of Elusive Higgs Boson from Defunct US Tevatron Collider
The elusive Higgs boson might have been spotted in the data collected by the Tevatron, a now shuttered collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. The…
Researchers Unveil the World’s Most Precise Measurement of the W Boson Mass
Based on data gathered at the Tevatron accelerator, researchers from the CDF collaboration have just unveiled the world’s most precise measurement of the W boson…
Higgs Boson Signals Gain Strength at Large Hadron Collider
In December, it was announced that the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is still the world’s largest and highest-energy particle…
The Search for the God Particle Narrows
The elusive Higgs Boson, frequently referred to (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) as the “God Particle” might not have been found yet, but it has fewer places to…