Fifty years ago, a team at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park made a discovery that turned the world of ...

helped to discover the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — in ...

The British scientist has been selected to lead the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, Europe’s CERN ...

The accelerator, built in 1949 on the UChicago campus on 56th ... of one of the two experiments of the Large Hadron Collider which discovered the Higgs boson. Prof. Yau Wah agreed: “For decades, ...

Hawking, however, is betting that if the Higgs boson exists, its discovery will have to wait until scientists build an even more powerful accelerator. Higgs himself will be “very puzzled” if ...

Riordan did most of his work on the history of the Higgs boson while serving as an adjunct professor ... energy physics at the University of Rochester and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in ...

The award comes in recognition of Riordan’s "important contributions to the history of post-World II physics, including the discovery of quarks, the invention and development of the transistor, and ...

Philip Burrows (PB): The LHC accelerator is 27 km long and about 90% of it is ... but because understanding why the mass of the electron, which the Higgs boson is responsible for, has that particular ...

But since the Higgs boson, an elementary particle, was confirmed in 2012 by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider – a ...

Thomson will become the 17th director-general of the CERN particle-physics laboratory when he takes up the position in 2026 ...

In 1964, Peter Higgs suggested that matter gets its mass from a field that permeates all of space, imparting particles with mass through their interactions with a particle known as the Higgs boson ...