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 its latest search for new exotic particles

This search for exotic long-lived particles looks at the possibility of “dark photon” production, which would occur when a Higgs boson decays into muons displaced in the detector

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10 November, 2023

ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass

New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%

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21 July, 2023

LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a photon

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26 May, 2023

Where does the Higgs boson come from?

The observed mass of the Higgs boson is, from the theoretical point of view, unnaturally small. This conundrum is forcing physicists to explore exotic explanations.

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30 March, 2023
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30 March, 2023

Probing fundamental symmetries of nature with the Higgs boson

The ATLAS collaboration tested Higgs-boson interactions with the carriers of the weak force, looking for signs of charge-parity symmetry violation

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21 April, 2023

ATLAS measures Higgs boson’s decay width

The decay width is linked to the particle’s lifetime and if found to deviate from its predicted value could indicate the presence of new physics

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18 November, 2022
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18 November, 2022

Higgs10: the future of Higgs research

History teaches that those who explore relentlessly and fearlessly are often the ones rewarded with the greatest prize of all: the truth.

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10 August, 2022
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10 August, 2022

Higgs10: Ten things we’ve learned about the Higgs boson in the past ten years

Since its discovery in 2012, the Higgs boson has become one of the most powerful tools to probe our understanding of nature and, with that, examine some of the biggest open questions in physics today.

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19 July, 2022

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry with the Higgs boson

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have searched for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the interaction between the Higgs boson and the tau lepton

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23 June, 2022

Higgs10: When spring 2012 turned to summer

It was just a few short weeks in mid-2012, but they were so intense that it felt like years. As 4 July drew near, the ATLAS and CMS experiments could sense that they were homing in on something big.

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04 July, 2022
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04 July, 2022

Higgs10: Big Bang Day

On 10 September 2008, the LHC circulated its first beams. It may not have been all plain sailing from then on, but the adventure had begun.

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20 June, 2022
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20 June, 2022