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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The incredible lightness of the Higgs

ATLAS searches for vector-like top quarks that could explain the Higgs boson’s small mass

News
Physics
11 September, 2018
Physics
News
11 September, 2018

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.

Press release
Physics
28 August, 2018
Physics
Press release
28 August, 2018

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

Opinion
Physics
06 July, 2018
Physics
Opinion
06 July, 2018

Higgs boson comes out on top

New results from CMS and ATLAS experiments reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark

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Physics
04 June, 2018
Physics
News
04 June, 2018