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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LHC experiments join forces to zoom in on the Higgs boson

Today the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented for the first time a combination of their results on the mass of the Higgs boson

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Accelerators
17 March, 2015

CMS pins down Higgs with first run data

Recent publications from CMS use data from the LHC's first run to shed light on the properties of the Higgs boson

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Accelerators
27 January, 2015
Accelerators
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27 January, 2015

How standard is the Higgs boson discovered in 2012?

Without a doubt, it is a Higgs boson, but is it the Higgs boson of the Standard Model? Run 2 of the LHC find out, says theorist John Ellis

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Physics
12 November, 2014

A new world record for CERN at 60 years old

In CERN’s 60th year, the first proof of the existence of the Higgs boson earns a Guinness World Record for CERN, ATLAS and CMS

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Accelerators
26 September, 2014
Accelerators
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26 September, 2014

LHC seminar: CMS latest results on Higgs measurements

Michail Bachtis presents all the latest from CMS. Watch the webcast from 11am CET

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Experiments
15 July, 2014

Results from CERN presented at ICHEP in Spain

At ICHEP in Valencia, Spain, all four LHC experiments presented new results from the LHC’s first run. Run 2 physics holds much promise

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Experiments
07 July, 2014

ICHEP day 2: Two years after Higgs boson announcement

Yesterday, CMS and ATLAS presented their most complete and most comprehensive measurements of the properties and decay modes of the Higgs boson

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Physics
05 July, 2014

CERN at the first day of ICHEP

Yesterday at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Valencia, Spain, CERN’s LHC experiments presented their latest results

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Physics
04 July, 2014
Physics
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04 July, 2014

CERN experiments report new Higgs boson measurements

Results reported by ATLAS and CMS discuss the decay of Higgs bosons directly to fermions, the particles that make up matter

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Accelerators
23 June, 2014

ATLAS precisely measures Higgs boson mass

The ATLAS Collaboration has analyzed its full Run 1 data sample of seven and eight TeV proton-proton collisions delivered by the LHC

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Physics
17 June, 2014

Higgs boson machine-learning challenge

Teach the machines: CERN launches competition to develop machine-learning analysis techniques for Higgs data

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Computing
19 May, 2014
Computing
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19 May, 2014

CMS presents new boundary of Higgs width

At the Moriond conference CMS presented the best constraint yet of the Higgs boson “width”, a parameter that determines the particle’s lifetime

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Experiments
31 March, 2014
Experiments
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31 March, 2014