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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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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Physics
03 August, 2020
Physics
Press release
03 August, 2020

The Higgs boson: Revealing nature’s secrets

Our third story in the LHC Physics at Ten series takes us on a deeper dive into the Higgs boson

Feature
Physics
04 July, 2020

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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Physics
04 June, 2020

The Higgs boson: What makes it special?

Our second story in the LHC Physics at Ten series visits the LHC’s most important discovery so far

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Physics
04 May, 2020
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Feature
04 May, 2020

ATLAS probes dark matter using the Higgs boson

The Higgs boson plays a crucial role in the search for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

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Physics
07 May, 2020

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the Higgs boson–top quark interaction

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction

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Physics
29 April, 2020

CMS measures Higgs boson’s mass with unprecedented precision

The CMS collaboration reported the Higgs boson’s mass with a precision of about 0.1%

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Physics
25 October, 2019

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