Discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, the elusive Higgs boson particle has been at the centre stage for ...
The British scientist has been selected to lead the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, Europe’s CERN ...
It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than ...
Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, there has been ongoing research there into Higgs bosons and a search for ...
Cern physicists searching for the telltale signs of new physics within the Large Hardon Collider have released their first ...
What we now call the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism gives a mass to the W and Z when they interact with an invisible field, now called the “Higgs field”, which pervades the universe. Just after the big ...
(Image: CERN) “It was 2012 and, as we usually do in our field to avoid biases, we had “blinded” a relatively small mass ...
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.
The concept of the tachyon, a theoretical particle that travels faster than light, has fascinated physicists and sparked ...
For years, researchers have been searching for a new theory that will unite the laws of physics and explain phenomena such as ...