Operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the LHC is the world's most advanced particle accelerator, and all the effort and investment into it has recently paid off, at least in part. On July 4th 2012, the CERN team announced that they have discovered a particle "...
One year ago, a new particle with the mass of 125 GeV and properties expected for the Standard Model Higgs boson was discovered by ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies √s = 7 TeV and 8 TeV. Since that ...
After the W and Z bosons were discovered by the UA1 and UA2 experiments at CERN in 198316,17,18,19, the search for the Higgs boson became a central thrust in particle physics and an important motivation for the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)20, and the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Find...
and tau leptons (τ)) are well measured and indications of interactions with a second-generation particle (muons,μ) are emerging. These tests reveal that the Higgs boson discovered ten years ago is
gauge boson- a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles meson,mesotron- an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 subatomic particle,particle- a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible...
The Higgs boson is produced in the collision of two protons and quickly decays into four muons, a type of heavy electron that is not absorbed by the detector. The tracks of the muons are shown in yellow. (Image credit: CERN) The discovery of a new subatomic particle that is likely ...
CERN physicists working on the Higgs boson have spent the last year checking the various ways in which it can be produced, its different decay modes, as well as its spin and its parity. So far these checks have confirmed that the particle is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the...
In July 2012 a particle with properties consistent with those of a Higgs boson was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. In this report I summarise the results of the measurements performed by the ATLAS experiment of the properties and the searches for rare and forbidden deca...
Proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider show events consistent with the Higgs boson particle.(Image credit: CERN/CMS/Taylor, L; McCauley, T) A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is, indeed, a Higgs boson, the particle thought to explain ...
The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, Switzerland.