Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic particle ...

One of the biggest open questions in particle physics today is how the Higgs boson interacts with itself. This "self-coupling" could help explain the evolution of the early universe and the mechanism ...

Bibi Boyce speaks to Dr Sarah Williams about her work at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world ...

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Durham physicist Professor Valery Khoze has been elected to the Academia Europaea, one of Europe’s most prestigious academic ...

Scientists have observed particles forming from the vacuum, revealing how matter may emerge from seemingly empty space.

Something is missing from the universe. Not misplaced, but structurally absent. About 85 percent of all matter in existence ...

Members of the University of Liverpool’s Particle Physics Research Frontier and accelerator scientists associated with the Cockcroft Institute share in the three million dollar award of the 2026 ...

To learn about this, researchers are going to be looking for Higgs boson interactions with second generation matter particles, the muon and the charm quark, and also looking for extra Higgs-like ...

Studying this decay channel is particularly challenging due to the extremely rare nature of Higgs boson pair production—predicted to occur once in a trillion proton–proton collisions—and the ...

Physicists have determined the mass of the W boson with the highest precision yet by analysing more than a billion proton ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble centered on the W boson, a heavy particle that carries the weak force, one of ...