The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such as quarks with mass ...

“Two quarks have to be extremely close and radiate a W or Z boson simultaneously for there to be a chance of the bosons colliding.” Apyan studies collisions in which two colliding quarks ...

For example, if the Higgs boson had behaved as in the standard model, but had had zero coupling to bottom quarks, the yields of all the other decay modes would be enhanced by a factor of about 2.4 ...

This week particle physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider have observed the Higgs boson decaying into bottom quarks for the first time. If you're the rare member of the general public ...

The Higgs boson has been spotted bottoming out — but that’s a good thing. Physicists have detected the elementary particle decaying into two bottom quarks, exotic, short-lived particles that ...

Models predict Higgs boson particles decay into two bottom quarks 60 percent of the time. Bottom quarks, or b quarks, are the second heaviest of the six types of quarks.

Nature's Tiniest Particles Dissected] When physicists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, they relied on its decay into Z bosons, W bosons and photons, but not bottom quarks.

However, the favoured decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of b quarks (H→bb), which is expected to account for almost 60 percent of all possible decays, has remained elusive up to now.

"Higgs boson production is rare -- but Higgs production with top quarks is rarest of them all, amounting to only about 1 percent of the Higgs boson events produced at the LHC," Chris Neu, a ...

The Higgs boson was predicted in the 1960s and discovered by the CMS and ATLAS experiments in 2012 using particle collisions generated by the LHC. Fundamental particles gain mass through their ...

An observation made by the CMS experiment at CERN unambiguously demonstrates the interaction of the Higgs boson and top quarks, which are the heaviest known subatomic particles. This major ...

Scientists suspect tiny so-called techni-quarks may make up the Higgs boson particle. Shown here, a simulation of a particle collision in which a Higgs boson is produced.