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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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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Physics
15 July, 2019
Physics
Press release
15 July, 2019

CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson

The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon

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Physics
24 May, 2019

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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Physics
29 March, 2019

The usefulness of useless knowledge

Fundamental science will help solve the world’s problems

Opinion
Physics
15 January, 2019
Physics
Opinion
15 January, 2019

LHC experiments share highlights for 2018

ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb presented their key physics results at an end-of-year series of talks

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Physics
14 December, 2018
Physics
News
14 December, 2018

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The Higgs mechanism

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