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 ...

Why did the journal Science name the Higgs boson – an elementary particle – last year's most important discovery? And why did it need something as enormous as the Large Hadron Collider, about 27 ...

Ten years ago, on July 4 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a new particle with features consistent with those of the Higgs boson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Happy birthday, Higgs boson! A year ago today, the discovery of the particle credited with giving others mass was announced to a packed and jubilant auditorium at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The ...

So a particle has been spotted, but is it what we were looking for? Checking whether we really have found the Higgs boson predicted by the standard model will be high on the agenda over the coming ...

Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays. This is predicted to be the most ...

Peter Higgs, a British physicist and Nobel Prize winner whose musings on the origins of mass launched a nearly five-decade, multibillion-dollar search for a subatomic particle — later known as the ...

On August 4, physicists at CERN announced that the ATLAS Collaboration had accomplished something never done before: they directly observed two simultaneous Z bosons — each in the distinctive spin ...