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What Is the Higgs Boson?
Since its 2012 detection, the Higgs boson has fascinated researchers for its unique role in separating forces of nature. Find ...
This time, physicists, including core UCLA researchers, have accurately measured the mass of the W boson — more precisely ...
Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at Large Hadron Collider, CERNW boson candidate event with a reconstructed muon (red line) ...
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has precisely measured the W boson's mass, confirming the Standard Model's ...
Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has captivated the physics ...
About 10 –12 seconds later, the scalar Higgs field spontaneously broke the symmetry of the electroweak force, separating it into the electromagnetic and weak forces, and giving mass to fundamental ...
What we now call the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism gives a mass to the W and Z when they interact with an invisible field, now called the “Higgs field”, which pervades the universe. Just after the big ...
It’s undeniable, though, that much has stayed the same. A high-energy physics lab still needs to be fast, cool, collaborative ...
One person is dead after a car was found on fire in the parking lot of a rec centre in Coquitlam, B.C., Sunday morning, local ...