The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On April 8, ...
Ten years ago, jubilant physicists working on the world's most powerful science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, announced the discovery of the Higgs boson — a particle that ...
Researchers at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Danilo Zia and Fabio Sciarrino from the Sapienza University of Rome, recently demonstrated a novel technique that allows the ...
Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94. The University of Edinburgh confirmed the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's April 8 ...
Top man: Peter Higgs pictured in 2012 during a visit to IOP Publishing in Bristol, UK (Courtesy: Dirk Dahmer) Born on 29 May 1929 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in north-east England, Higgs attended Cotham ...
You describe the Higgs field acting as “a sort of invisible gloop that slows down particles like electrons and quarks” (2 July, p 42). This description is suspiciously similar to the earlier idea of ...