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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CMS presents new boundary of Higgs width

At the Moriond conference CMS presented the best constraint yet of the Higgs boson “width”, a parameter that determines the particle’s lifetime

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Experiments
31 March, 2014
Experiments
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31 March, 2014

François Englert talks Higgs bosons and supersymmetry

On his first trip to CERN since sharing the Nobel prize in physics last year with Peter Higgs, François Englert talks Higgs bosons and supersymmetry

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Physics
10 March, 2014

A Nobel laureate's formula for the universe

Watch François Englert explain the equations for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism that gives particles mass, with the help of a blackboard

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Physics
26 February, 2014

Highlights from CERN in 2013

Higgs boson decays, a Nobel prize for Higgs and Englert and a huge Open Days event were among the big stories at CERN this year

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Accelerators
19 December, 2013
Accelerators
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19 December, 2013

CMS presents evidence for Higgs decays to fermions

The CMS collaboration have measured the decay of the Higgs boson to pairs of bottom quarks and to pairs of tau leptons

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Experiments
03 December, 2013
Experiments
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03 December, 2013

ATLAS: 4.1 sigma for Higgs to two tau

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to fermions: two tau particles, to be precise

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Experiments
27 November, 2013
Experiments
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27 November, 2013

ATLAS sees Higgs boson decay to fermions

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to two tau particles

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Experiments
27 November, 2013
Experiments
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27 November, 2013

CERN receives the Prince of Asturias Award

CERN, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, today receives the Prince of Asturias Award during a ceremony in Spain

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Physics
25 October, 2013
Physics
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25 October, 2013

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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Physics
14 October, 2013
Physics
Opinion
14 October, 2013

Watch CERN physicists react to Nobel announcement

Cameras were rolling in CERN's building 40 when members of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations heard the news from Stockholm live yesterday

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Physics
09 October, 2013

CERN congratulates Englert and Higgs on Nobel in physics

The 2013 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work on the Higgs boson

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Physics
08 October, 2013