Higgs boson

The Higgs boson, as proposed within the Standard Model, is the simplest manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. It gives mass to elementary particles.

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Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs

It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC

Opinion
Physics
06 July, 2018
Physics
Opinion
06 July, 2018

Higgs boson comes out on top

New results from CMS and ATLAS experiments reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark

News
Physics
04 June, 2018
Physics
News
04 June, 2018

Higgs results take centre stage at annual Moriond conference

ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson

News
Physics
19 March, 2018

Long-lived physics

The CMS collaboration closes in on exotic long-lived particles that could get trapped in its detector layers

News
Experiments
18 January, 2018
Experiments
News
18 January, 2018

50 years since iconic 'A Model of Leptons' published

Steven Weinberg’s iconic paper, A Model of Leptons, was published in 1967 and determined the direction for high-energy particle physics research

News
At CERN
20 November, 2017

Hunting season at the LHC

With the LHC now back smashing protons together at an energy of 13 TeV, what exotic beasts do physicists hope to find?

News
Physics
10 August, 2017
Physics
News
10 August, 2017

Where were you? Your Higgs stories revealed

On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we asked you where you were when you heard this result

News
Experiments
04 July, 2017
Experiments
News
04 July, 2017

Happy 5th anniversary, Higgs boson!

Five years ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson

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Experiments
04 July, 2017
Experiments
News
04 July, 2017

Tell us your Higgs stories

On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we will publish your best Higgs stories

News
Physics
20 June, 2017
Physics
News
20 June, 2017

Higgs Boson Pizza Day

CERN celebrated the fourth anniversary of the historical Higgs boson announcement with special pizzas

News
Physics
06 July, 2016
Physics
News
06 July, 2016

Make your own Higgs Boson pizza

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the Higgs boson announcement CERN invites you to make your own particle-based pizza

News
Physics
05 July, 2016
Physics
News
05 July, 2016