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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Hunting season at the LHC

With the LHC now back smashing protons together at an energy of 13 TeV, what exotic beasts do physicists hope to find?

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Physics
10 August, 2017
Physics
News
10 August, 2017

Where were you? Your Higgs stories revealed

On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we asked you where you were when you heard this result

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Experiments
04 July, 2017
Experiments
News
04 July, 2017

Happy 5th anniversary, Higgs boson!

Five years ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson

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Experiments
04 July, 2017
Experiments
News
04 July, 2017

Tell us your Higgs stories

On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we will publish your best Higgs stories

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Physics
20 June, 2017
Physics
News
20 June, 2017

Higgs Boson Pizza Day

CERN celebrated the fourth anniversary of the historical Higgs boson announcement with special pizzas

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Physics
06 July, 2016
Physics
News
06 July, 2016

Make your own Higgs Boson pizza

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the Higgs boson announcement CERN invites you to make your own particle-based pizza

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Physics
05 July, 2016
Physics
News
05 July, 2016

Help the Higgs find its siblings

A new citizen science project gives sofa-scientists the chance to search for previously undiscovered particles

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Physics
04 July, 2016
Physics
News
04 July, 2016

Is theoretical physics in crisis?

Do recent discoveries mean there’s nothing left? Find out what the future holds for theoretical physics in our final In Theory series installment

Feature
Physics
18 May, 2016
Physics
Feature
18 May, 2016

The CERN effect

An opinion article from Sijbrand de Jong, President of CERN Council, on using innovation and knowledge so cutting-edge research can benefit society

Opinion
Computing
19 April, 2016
Computing
Opinion
19 April, 2016

ATLAS and CMS experiments shed light on Higgs properties

At the 2015 LHCP conference the collaborations presented for the first time combined measurements of many properties of the Higgs boson

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Accelerators
01 September, 2015
Accelerators
News
01 September, 2015

LHC experiments join forces to zoom in on the Higgs boson

Today the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented for the first time a combination of their results on the mass of the Higgs boson

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Accelerators
17 March, 2015

CMS pins down Higgs with first run data

Recent publications from CMS use data from the LHC's first run to shed light on the properties of the Higgs boson

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Accelerators
27 January, 2015
Accelerators
News
27 January, 2015