Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained - Space.com
WEBApr 10, 2024 · The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, Switzerland.
Higgs boson - Wikipedia
WEBAfter a 40-year search, a subatomic particle with the expected properties was discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The new particle was subsequently confirmed to match the expected properties of a Higgs boson.
The Higgs boson | CERN
WEBStars, planets and life could only emerge because particles gained their mass from a fundamental field associated with the Higgs boson. The existence of this mass-giving field was confirmed in 2012, when the Higgs boson particle was discovered at CERN.
The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery - CERN
WEBTen 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 predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
What's so special about the Higgs boson? | CERN
WEBAt CERN on 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations present evidence in the LHC data for a particle consistent with a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism proposed in the 1960s to give mass to the W, Z and other particles.
What is the God particle? - CERN
WEBThe term 'The God particle' was coined by the physicist Leon Lederman in his 1993 popular science book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Science Made Simple: What is the Higgs Boson (God Particle)?
WEBDec 25, 2020 · The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that was discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It is named after physicist Peter Higgs, who, along with several other scientists, proposed its existence in the 1960s.
CERN: We have found the Higgs boson 'God particle' - ExtremeTech
WEBJul 4, 2012 · Scientists at CERN in Switzerland have announced the discovery of a new elementary particle, the first new particle since the Z boson was discovered way back in 1983.
CERN’s impact goes way beyond tiny particles - Nature
WEBApr 17, 2024 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) compresses and collides tiny bits of matter to recreate the fundamental particles that appeared just one-trillionth of a second after the Universe was created. It...
Happy birthday, Higgs boson! What we do and don’t know about the particle
WEBJul 4, 2022 · In 2013, CERN experiments studied the angle at which photons produced in Higgs boson decays flew out into the detectors, and used this to show with high probability that the particle had zero...