Andrei Gritsan, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins, is a member of a large team of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and France that, in 2012 ...

This is the fourth article in a series on new experiments at CERN. The discovery of the Higgs boson on July 4th, 2012, at CERN was one of the great achievements in the history of particle physics, the ...

The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On April 8, ...

About 100 researchers gathered in Orsay and Paris from 15 to 17 July 2025, for the 15th Higgs Hunting workshop.

Peter Higgs, the man behind the Higgs boson theory, also known as the 'God particle,' died last Monday, April 8, 2024, at the age of 94 in his home in Edinburgh. Throughout his life and career, Higgs ...

Higgs-boson pairs could help scientists understand the stability of our universe. The trick is finding them. In 2012, scientists on the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ...

Ten years ago, jubilant physicists working on the world's most powerful science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, announced the discovery of the Higgs boson — a particle that ...

This newly-discovered particle could account for dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have discovered a new ...

Last year, after decades of waiting, a handful of theorists had their work confirmed with the announcement that scientists had discovered an elusive particle called the Higgs boson. Now, just over a ...