higgs-boson
5 articles tagged with #higgs-boson
Experiments
The CERN Higgs Boson Discovery: How Physicists Found the God Particle
On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson at 125 GeV. Here is how the LHC, ATLAS, and CMS found the particle that gives other particles mass.
Science
The Higgs Boson Explained — God Particle
The Higgs boson explained: how particles get mass, the 2012 CERN discovery, Standard Model, and why the 'God particle' nickname is misleading.
Science
Higgs Boson Discovery: CERN's Greatest Achievement
How CERN detected the Higgs boson, confirming the mechanism giving particles mass
Science
How the Large Hadron Collider Works — And What It's Searching For
The LHC is a 26,659-meter ring of superconducting magnets that smashes protons together to test the Standard Model. Here is how it works, what it found, and what it is still hunting.