An elementary atomic particle observed to be real at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland in 2012. With 99.9% certainty, the Higgs boson, pronounced "bow-son," is said to be what gives other ...

The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On April 8, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Six years after discovering the Higgs boson, physicists have observed how the particle decays — a ...

Martin Bauer is an associate professor at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University. He receives funding from UKRI through a Future Leaders fellowhip. The IPPP is ...

Scientists at CERN’s ATLAS experiment have uncovered compelling evidence of Higgs bosons decaying into muons, an incredibly rare event that could deepen our understanding of how particles acquire mass ...

On 4 July 2012, physicists at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory, declared victory in their long search for the Higgs boson. The elusive particle’s discovery filled in the last gap in the ...

There was a bump in the middle of the night. On June 14, 2012, Johns Hopkins physics and astronomy professor Andrei Gritsan analyzed data in a small meeting room at the CERN in Switzerland. He worked ...

The discovery of the Higgs boson inspired young people around the world to pursue a career in science and technology. The Higgs boson is the final predicted piece of the Standard Model, physicists’ ...

This month 40 years ago Peter Higgs wrote two papers that might explain the origins of mass. However, as Peter Rodgers discovers, he is reluctant to take too much of the credit Looking back Peter ...

The elusive particle that physicists knew had to to exist, but took half a century to find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

It doesn’t seem like collisions of particles with no mass should be able to produce the “mass-giving” boson, the Higgs. But every other second at the LHC, they do. Einstein’s most famous theory, often ...