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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Highlights from CERN in 2013

Higgs boson decays, a Nobel prize for Higgs and Englert and a huge Open Days event were among the big stories at CERN this year

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Accelerators
19 December, 2013
Accelerators
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19 December, 2013

CMS presents evidence for Higgs decays to fermions

The CMS collaboration have measured the decay of the Higgs boson to pairs of bottom quarks and to pairs of tau leptons

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Experiments
03 December, 2013
Experiments
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03 December, 2013

ATLAS: 4.1 sigma for Higgs to two tau

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to fermions: two tau particles, to be precise

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Experiments
27 November, 2013
Experiments
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27 November, 2013

ATLAS sees Higgs boson decay to fermions

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to two tau particles

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Experiments
27 November, 2013
Experiments
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27 November, 2013

CERN receives the Prince of Asturias Award

CERN, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, today receives the Prince of Asturias Award during a ceremony in Spain

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Physics
25 October, 2013
Physics
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25 October, 2013

A Nobel prize for particle physics

Wherever you are in the global particle physics community, you too can feel a sense of pride in the achievement of a Nobel for Higgs and Englert

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Physics
14 October, 2013
Physics
Opinion
14 October, 2013

Watch CERN physicists react to Nobel announcement

Cameras were rolling in CERN's building 40 when members of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations heard the news from Stockholm live yesterday

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Physics
09 October, 2013

CERN congratulates Englert and Higgs on Nobel in physics

The 2013 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work on the Higgs boson

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Physics
08 October, 2013

The Higgs boson: One year on

In the first year after the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists from ATLAS and CMS have been busy studying the properties of the new particle

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Physics
04 July, 2013
Physics
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04 July, 2013

The basics of the Higgs boson

In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson

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Physics
16 May, 2013
Physics
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16 May, 2013

The basics of a boson

In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson

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Physics
15 May, 2013
Physics
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15 May, 2013