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.

  • CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

    CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

    The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons

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  • Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson

    Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson

    The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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  • New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

    New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

    ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far

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  • Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

    Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

    The latest experimental data provide more stringent tests of the Standard Model and of rare phenomena of the microworld

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  • The usefulness of useless knowledge

    The usefulness of useless knowledge

    Fundamental science will help solve the world’s problems

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  • Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

    Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

    Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.

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  • Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs

    It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC

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  • Higgs results take centre stage at annual Moriond conference

    Higgs results take centre stage at annual Moriond conference

    ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson

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  • The CERN effect

    An opinion article from Sijbrand de Jong, President of CERN Council, on using innovation and knowledge so cutting-edge research can benefit society

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  • 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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