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

A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson – thought to be a fundamental building ...

Understanding the Higgs boson Caltech's Mark Wise on why researchers are on the chase for this elusive subatomic particle. Mark Wise July 4, 2012 7:34 a.m. PT ...

The Higgs boson is one of the 17 elementary particles that make up the Standard Model of particle physics, which is scientists' best theory about the behaviors of the universe's most basic ...

Higgs bosons are notoriously difficult to separate from look-alike subatomic processes. Even for a very clean signature—a Higgs boson decaying into two photons—there are 10 identical background events ...

In the case of the search for the Higgs boson, the mass histograms for pairs of photons and for four leptons were critical. That is, the searches focused on cases in which a Higgs boson, after being ...

Physics & Chemistry 10 Years After the Higgs Boson, What’s the Next Big Thing for Physics? We asked physicists to predict the discoveries that will blow our minds in the coming years.

Nature's Tiniest Particles Dissected] When physicists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, they relied on its decay into Z bosons, W bosons and photons, but not bottom quarks.

Higgs, from the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and Englert, from L'Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, laid out the case for the Higgs boson in independent papers in 1964.

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.

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 ...