Higgs boson

The Higgs boson, as proposed within the Standard Model, is the simplest manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. It gives mass to elementary particles.

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ATLAS probes Higgs interaction with the heaviest quarks

With its updated analysis methods, the ATLAS collaboration has significantly improved the precision of its measurements of Higgs boson interactions

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Physics
09 September, 2024

ATLAS dives deeper into di-Higgs

By combining multiple Higgs boson pair studies, physicists are closer to finding out how the particle interacts with itself, providing clues to the stability of the Universe

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Physics
18 June, 2024
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18 June, 2024

CMS releases Higgs boson discovery data to the public

The collaboration has also made publicly available the software that it developed to search for the unique particle

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Experiments
16 April, 2024

CERN pays tribute to Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs passed away on 8 April at the age of 94

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Physics
10 April, 2024
Physics
Obituary
10 April, 2024

CMS presents its latest search for new exotic particles

This search for exotic long-lived particles looks at the possibility of “dark photon” production, which would occur when a Higgs boson decays into muons displaced in the detector

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Physics
10 November, 2023

ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass

New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%

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Physics
21 July, 2023

LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

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 and a photon

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Physics
26 May, 2023

Where does the Higgs boson come from?

The observed mass of the Higgs boson is, from the theoretical point of view, unnaturally small. This conundrum is forcing physicists to explore exotic explanations.

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Physics
30 March, 2023
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News
30 March, 2023

Probing fundamental symmetries of nature with the Higgs boson

The ATLAS collaboration tested Higgs-boson interactions with the carriers of the weak force, looking for signs of charge-parity symmetry violation

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Physics
21 April, 2023

ATLAS measures Higgs boson’s decay width

The decay width is linked to the particle’s lifetime and if found to deviate from its predicted value could indicate the presence of new physics

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Physics
18 November, 2022
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18 November, 2022

Higgs10: the future of Higgs research

History teaches that those who explore relentlessly and fearlessly are often the ones rewarded with the greatest prize of all: the truth.

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Physics
10 August, 2022
Physics
Feature
10 August, 2022