On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This particle is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. The Higgs boson, as proposed within the Standard Model, is the simplest manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. Other types of Higgs bosons are predicted by other theories that go beyond the Standard Model.
On 8 October 2013 the Nobel prize in physics was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider."
Collision events* recorded by ATLAS (left) and CMS (right) showing characteristics of a Higgs produced in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV (Image: left – ATLAS/CERN, right – Tom McCauley/CMS/CERN)
The Higgs Discovery Explained - Episode 1Here’s a simple recipe in 3 steps. Episode 1 explains how to make THE particle in the lab. |
The Higgs Discovery Explained - Episode 1 |
The Higgs Discovery Explained - Episode 2The lifetime of the Higgs is so short that you can't in any conceivable way "see" it. How do physicists detect it then? |
The Higgs Discovery Explained - Episode 2 |
Gradcracker webinarRaymond Veness explains his involvement in the Higgs Boson discovery. |
GC Webinar – Raymond Veness explains his involvement in the Higgs Boson discovery |
