Scientists have spotted the first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay, expanding our understanding of the strange quantum universe. In 2012, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a ...

One way to prove a coupling between Higgs and other particles is to look at its decay products. The existence of the Higgs boson is fleeting — once it pops up, the particle "lives" for just 15.6 ...

The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

The Higgs boson's decays have to follow some key rules. For instance, since the Higgs boson has no electric charge, its decay byproducts must combine to have zero electric charge as well.

Nature's Tiniest Particles Dissected] When physicists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, they relied on its decay into Z bosons, W bosons and photons, but not bottom quarks.

More information: G. Aad et al, Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Z Boson and a Photon at the LHC, Physical Review Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.021803.

The Higgs boson can decay in multiple ways, the first of which was reported in 2018.These end up with different particles, and the distribution is thought to depend on its mass, now narrowed down ...

The Higgs boson, the particle responsible for giving everything in the universe mass, was discovered six years ago. And now, researchers at CERN have finally witnessed how it decays. The ...

Although observing the Higgs boson decay might not garner as much attention as the discovery of the particle itself, which was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics, it is a colossal victory ...

AI takes over. Producing a Higgs boson alongside a pair of top quarks, followed by its decay into quark pairs, is a rare event at the LHC and especially difficult to tell apart from background ...

When physicists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, they relied on its decay into Z bosons, W bosons and photons, but not bottom quarks.