Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...

Display of a candidate event for the production of two W+ bosons via vector-boson scattering, followed by their decay into two muons and two muon neutrinos. The muons are represented by the red lines ...

Peter Higgs, the British physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 2013 for his discovery decades earlier of a theoretical mechanism to explain the origin of mass in the universe, has died. He was 94. He ...

The decay and fission of magnetic quivers provides insights into the physical and mathematical foundations of quantum field theories. QFTs are the framework for the description of countless physical ...

We work to understand why W boson particle mass is so important. Fermilab physicists really care about the mass of the W boson. They spent nearly a decade recording collisions in the Tevatron collider ...

There are probably very few people on this globe who at some point in time haven’t heard the term ‘Higgs Boson’ zip past, along with the term ‘God Particle’. As during the 2010s the scientists at CERN ...

There’s a lot more to the story of the Higgs boson than just one man named Higgs. Despite the appeal of the “lone genius” narrative, it’s rare that a discovery can be attributed solely to the work of ...

On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, ...

July 4 marks the 10 th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson. This 10-question quiz will test your knowledge of the particle—and it may even teach you something new. Click through each of ...

Close, but there is more. Scientists often use the name Higgs to refer to the Higgs particle, also known as the Higgs boson. In the Standard Model of particle physics, particles are divided into ...