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Higgs boson 10th anniversary

A decade ago, scientists on the CMS and ATLAS experiments announced the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Illustration: Kaplan, Arkani-Hamed, Dunford in foreground, sitting in theater, clips of documentary overlaying background
06/23/22

Particle Fever: Where are they now?

The 2013 documentary Particle Fever follows physicists from the start-up of the LHC through the discovery of the Higgs boson. Where are those physicists now?

Illustration of particle collision surrounded by four scientists
06/21/22

Reverberations of the Higgs

The discovery of the Higgs boson inspired young people around the world to pursue a career in science and technology.

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Visualization of a particle collision
03/10/20

Accounting for the Higgs

Only a fraction of collision events that look like they produce a Higgs boson actually produce a Higgs boson. Luckily, it doesn’t matter.

Illustration of particles sneaking into Higgs field, scientists watch with binoculars from bushes (green, pink, teal, cyan)
04/10/18

How to make a Higgs boson

It doesn’t seem like collisions of particles with no mass should be able to produce the “mass-giving” boson, the Higgs. But every other second at the LHC, they do.

Illustration of gravity as the bouncer for a club where the Higgs doesn’t fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model
09/15/15

Where the Higgs belongs

The Higgs doesn’t quite fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model of particle physics.