Finding a Higgs boson thus strongly supports the supersymmetric Standard Model, which in turn supports the notion that string theory is indeed the right approach to nature.

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

Simulating data in particle physics is expensive and not perfectly accurate. To get around this, researchers are now ...

The prestigious award goes to Francois Englert and Peter Higgs, who a half-century ago independently proposed what became the Higgs boson, discovered in 2012.

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.

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass.

The Higgs boson decays into fermions known as tau leptons, confirming the Standard Model yet again.

This model predicted that the so-called Higgs field would also give rise to its own particle, and the concept of the Higgs boson was born.

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 mass ...

His theory, contingent on what became known as the Higgs boson, made the Standard Model of Particle Physics possible.