The Higgs boson - CERN
To confirm if it really was the Higgs boson, physicists needed to check its “spin” – the Higgs boson is the only particle to have a spin of zero. By examining two and a half times more data, they concluded in …
What's so special about the Higgs boson? - CERN
The particle that we now call the Higgs boson first appeared in a scientific paper written by Peter Higgs in 1964. At that time, physicists were working on describing the weak force – one of the four …
What have we learned since the Higgs boson discovery? - CERN
Probing the Higgs boson with increasing precision may lead to new paths of research, including new physics. Observing its decay into pairs of second-generation matter particles, such as charm quarks, …
AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm - CERN
May 19, 2025 · The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such as quarks with …
Higgs10: The Higgs boson and the rise of the Standard Model of
May 10, 2022 · As the various breakthroughs of the decade gradually consolidated this theoretical framework, the Brout–Englert–Higgs (BEH) field and its boson emerged as the most promising …
The Higgs boson: What makes it special? - CERN
May 4, 2020 · The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism introduced a new quantum field that today we call the Higgs field, whose quantum manifestation is the Higgs boson. Only particles that interact with the …
How did we discover the Higgs boson? - CERN
The Higgs boson was discovered, almost 50 years after first being proposed, by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN in 2012. But why did it take so long to find it?
The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery - CERN
Ten years ago, on July 4 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a new particle with features consistent with those of the Higgs boson …
The origins of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism - CERN
Like all fundamental fields, the Higgs field has an associated particle – the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is the visible manifestation of the Higgs field, rather like a wave at the surface of the sea.
How does the Higgs boson impact everyday life? - CERN
The Higgs boson itself is part of the answer to why we – and everything we interact with – have mass. The Higgs boson underpins the whole Standard Model like a jigsaw piece, spurring on our curiosity …