Tag: 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.

  • The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery

    The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery

    The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider and the progress made since then, have allowed physicists to make tremendous steps forward in our understanding of the universe

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  • Home.cern, CERN Courier: New online resources on the Higgs boson

    Home.cern, CERN Courier: New online resources on the Higgs boson

    What’s so special about the Higgs boson? Why should I care? What’s next? If these questions torment you, head straight to home.cern.

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  • Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry with the Higgs boson

    Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry with the Higgs boson

    The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have searched for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the interaction between the Higgs boson and the tau lepton

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  • Join CERN in a historic particle physics week

    Join CERN in a historic particle physics week

    Tune in to celebrate ten years of Higgs research at the LHC with CERN on 3 and 4 July. If your hunger for physics hasn’t been satiated, stay to witness the start of Run 3 at the LHC on 5 July

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  • Pre-registration for the Higgs anniversary symposium is now open

    Pre-registration for the Higgs anniversary symposium is now open

    The 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson’s discovery will be marked by a symposium on 4 July celebrating a decade of Higgs boson physics, discussing the latest results and looking to the future

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  • Large Hadron Collider restarts

    Large Hadron Collider restarts

    Beams of protons are again circulating around the collider’s 27-kilometre ring, marking the end of a multiple-year hiatus for upgrade work

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  • Higgs10 – save the date!

    Higgs10 – save the date!

    On 4 July 2012, half a century’s wait came to an end as the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. Ten years on, we mark the occasion and look forward to a bright future for Higgs research.

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  • Homing in on the Higgs boson’s interaction with the charm quark

    Homing in on the Higgs boson’s interaction with the charm quark

    New ATLAS and CMS analyses place tight limits on the strength of the Higgs boson’s interaction with the charm quark

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  • ATLAS and CMS chase the invisible with the Higgs boson

    ATLAS and CMS chase the invisible with the Higgs boson

    The collaborations have set stringent new bounds on the fraction of Higgs bosons transforming into invisible particles

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  • A crunching multiverse to solve two physics puzzles at once

    A crunching multiverse to solve two 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 the strong force

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