The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of ... a great teacher, and someone who explained physics in a very simple and yet profound way," Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director ...

The introduction of discretized electron orbits addressed the stability of the atom and explained the atomic ... of the fundamental forces, and the Higgs boson, which gives mass to the quarks ...

Last week, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle-smasher at CERN, in Europe, reported that they had detected a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson particle and a photon.

The ATLAS detector, one of two experiments to spot the elusive Higgs boson in particle smashups ... was not just mathematically elegant. It explained patterns evident in the experimental data.

explained that the original Higgs boson doesn’t couple directly with light, meaning it has to be created by smashing other particles together with enormous magnets and high-powered lasers while ...

Hawkins explained: "This could mean that the universe ... Still, you have to wonder about Hawking's relationship with the Higgs Boson discovery. First, there's the fact that he lost a $100 bet ...

As such, the following year the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to the boson’s namesake ... the gist of what we call the Higgs mechanism. He explained sometimes abstruse physics ...

Higgs boson's width measured with most accuracy ... Higgs was aware of these findings, as he explained to New Scientist in 2012: “I had faith in the theory behind the mechanism as other features ...

Peter Higgs, a giant of British science who came up with the idea of the Higgs boson particle ... a great teacher and someone who explained physics in a very simple and yet profound way." ...

“According to what we call ‘standard’ cosmology, our universe is and has been expanding at different rates throughout its history,” explained Humberto Gilmer, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown ...