On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that the United States was no ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

A genus of around 20 burrowing frog species found mostly in South Africa is famous for its members' short limbs, flat, ...

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

Baylor University physicists Jay R. Dittmann, Ph.D., Kenichi Hatakeyama, Ph.D., Andrew Brinkerhoff, Ph.D. and Jonathan Wilson ...

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such as quarks with mass ...

The Sheffield ATLAS group made major contributions to the Higgs boson discovery. One of our academics was corresponding editor of the ATLAS Higgs boson discovery publication. Subsequently, our group ...

But Peter Higgs quickly realized that this strange new quantum field had some other amazing properties. The field didn’t just interact with electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. It also ...

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.

The data from two independent CERN teams, ATLAS and CMS, converged on the same conclusion – they’d found a new particle with a mass around 125.3 GeV and several other Higgs-like properties.

"After just 10 years of Higgs boson exploration at the LHC, the ATLAS and CMS experiments have provided a detailed map of its interactions with force carriers and matter particles," ATLAS ...

A decade has passed since humanity officially discovered what makes our existence possible. On July 4, 2012, scientists announced the observation of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that gives ...