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’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.

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

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 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.

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs died at age 94 on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. AP Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle, which came to be known as the Higgs boson, in 1964.

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.

On July 4, 2012, scientists announced the observation of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that gives almost all other particles their mass—and thus lays the foundation for the matter that forms ...

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 ...

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.