The existence of the Higgs boson was theorized in the mid-1960s as a consequence of a symmetry-breaking mechanism suggested by Peter Higgs, François Englert, and Robert Brout, during the summer ...

The last neutral broken-symmetry consequence of the Higgs gains mass, and becomes the Higgs boson. At last, the Higgs boson couples to all the other particles of the Standard Model, giving mass to ...

But a Higgs boson decaying into electrons—whose mass is about 8000 times smaller than that of a bottom quark—is approximately the same odds as winning the Powerball jackpot (1 in 200,000,000.) Because ...

The term “boson” comes from the name of Indian physicist and mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose. Particles come in two varieties: bosons and fermions. The Higgs particle falls into the category of ...

The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It's a bit of an unfair comparison; discovering the electron, for instance, required little more than a vacuum tube ...

The breaking of this symmetry is realized in the Standard Model through the Brout-Englert-Higgs (BEH) mechanism. The discovery of the Higgs boson provided the first experimental confirmation of ...

On the other hand, boson stars can do all sorts of things that could make them detectable, like mess with nuclear fusion in ...

The discovery of a potential Higgs boson particle plays a crucial role in super-symmetry - just one more of the ingredients needed to provide evidence of the M-Theory of strings, writes Dr. Henryk ...

The Higgs boson is produced in nature whenever such a symmetry is broken, . "however, typically only one symmetry is broken at a time, and thus the Higgs is just described by its energy," Burch said.

The Higgs boson is the reason that many particles have mass, to make a long story involving complex concepts called “quantum fields” and “symmetry breaking” short.

These stars — which have a variety of names, including axion stars, boson stars and dark stars — can be small, roughly the same mass as normal, everyday stars. They can also be huge, spanning ...