Serving the Brown University community since 1891In the decades leading up to the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) July 4 announcement of the probable discovery of the Higgs boson, ...

David Werdegar asks whether the Higgs field is like the luminiferous ether (Letters, 30 July). The answer is no. According to quantum field theory, fields, like the Higgs field and the ...

The Higgs boson is produced in nature whenever such a symmetry is broken, . "however, typically only one symmetry is broken at a time, and thus the Higgs is just described by its energy," Burch said.

Although the Higgs field is not directly measurable, accelerators can excite this field and “shake loose” detectable particles called Higgs bosons. Scientists on experiments at the Large Hadron ...

July 4 marks the 10 th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson. This 10-question quiz will test your knowledge of the particle—and it may even teach you something new. Click through each of ...

And according to the same model, such a field should also give rise to a Higgs particle — meaning if the Higgs boson wasn't there, this would ultimately falsify the entire theory.

Peter Higgs, Nobel-winning physicist on a subatomic hunt, dies at 94 His theory, contingent on what became known as the Higgs boson, made the Standard Model of Particle Physics possible ...

Mass, a measurement of the amount of matter in an object, is thought to result when particles interact with the Higgs field, first postulated by the Scottish theoretical physicist Peter Higgs in 1964.

The Higgs particle could have the key to this whole cosmic puzzle. Until today, the so-called God Particle, the key to our understanding of the universe, existed only in theory.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Peter Higgs was no good in the lab, but he never doubted that one day his theory of a powerful subatomic particle that bears his name would be proven right in practice. His ...

ELUSIVE: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass, by Frank Close In early October 2013, the Nobel Prize committee was preparing to announce the winner of its award in physics.

The axial Higgs boson differs from the Higgs boson, which was first detected by the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC a decade ago in 2012 , because it has a magnetic moment, a magnetic strength ...