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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

That would influence the Higgs boson’s lifetime–but so subtly that even this calculation couldn’t detect it. “This would be a tiny, tiny change in the lifetime value,” says Vernieri.

But here's the biggest thing you have to remember about the LHC: even five years after we've discovered the Higgs boson, we've still only collected approximately 2% of the data it's going to ...

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.