A diagram shows a proton-proton collision in the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector that produced a Higgs boson, which quickly decayed into two bottom quarks (bb, shown as blue cones).

The discovery of the Higgs boson hasn’t led to an explosion of new physics as many predicted. Now, some scientists think that ...

The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, Switzerland.

The Higgs boson’s decay into muons happens in only about one in every 5000 Higgs decays. So, the team had to search for a tiny signal amidst a vast amount of background noise caused by other particle ...

The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.

Scientists may have observed the Higgs boson doing a new trick: creating pairs of muons. When the Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, it was the final piece of ...

The Higgs boson has special status: It explains the origin of particles’ masses. Tap the colored sections below for more. Tap the matter/antimatter switch to see matter’s antimatter partners.

The Higgs boson's mass also limits the possible decays. Because bottom quarks are each 30 times lighter than the Higgs, a Higgs boson can easily churn out a pair of them when it breaks down.

But, although the Standard Model predicts what happens to the Higgs boson when it dies, until now, researchers hadn't observed the particle decay into b quarks, Beacham said.

Sure, we found the Higgs Boson at the LHC earlier this decade. But what else has, and more importantly, hasn't turned up?

1.6 x 10-22 seconds: That, according to theory, is the lifetime of the Higgs boson, one of the most sought-after particles in the subatomic world. This time is so short that tens of trillions of ...

Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.