Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

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

As the LHC continues its experiments, improvements in identifying c quarks and sorting events will pave the way for future discoveries. CMS, along with ATLAS – the other major LHC experiment – might ...

Peter Higgs, the shy, somewhat reclusive physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his theoretical work on how the Higgs boson gives elementary particles their mass, has died at the age of 94.

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 ...

This is a very rare decay process that tells us important things about the Higgs boson as well as about our universe. The Higgs boson is a type of boson, a force-carrying subatomic particle.

The Standard Model predicts that approximately 0.15 percent of Higgs bosons should decay into a Z boson and a photon, with the Higgs boson having a mass of around 125 billion electronvolts.

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 ...