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Bookmark or Share- The Higgs boson: What makes it special? - CERNIn 1964, two papers – one by Robert Brout and François Englert, the other by Peter Higgs – purported to have a solution: a new mechanism that would break the electroweak symmetry. The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism introduced a new quantum field that today we call the Higgs field, whose quantum manifestation is the Higgs boson.
- How did we discover the Higgs boson? - CERNThe problem is that the particles that the Higgs decays into are the same kinds of particles that are copiously produced in particle collisions. Simply seeing a pair of photons (one of the final states from the Higgs boson decay) is hardly any indication that the Higgs boson exists and is being produced in the experiment.
- What's so special about the Higgs boson? - CERNThe Higgs boson is that particle, and its discovery in 2012 confirmed the BEH mechanism and the Higgs field, allowing researchers to probe ever further in their understanding of matter. Measuring the properties of the Higgs boson in detail is crucial to exploring many outstanding mysteries in particle physics and cosmology, from the wild ...
- The Higgs boson - CERNTo confirm if it really was the Higgs boson, physicists needed to check its “spin” – the Higgs boson is the only particle to have a spin of zero. By examining two and a half times more data, they concluded in March 2013 that, indeed, some kind of Higgs boson had been discovered.
- The basics of the Higgs boson - CERNThe Higgs boson is one of two types of fundamental particles, and it’s a particular game-changer in the field of particle physics, proving how particles gain mass. Using the Socratic method, CERN physicists Dave Barney and Steve Goldfarb explain the exciting implications of the Higgs boson.
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