In 2012, scientists confirmed the discovery of the elusive "God Particle" — also known as the Higgs boson. But what exactly is it, why does it matter, and how does it change our understanding of the ...

The Higgs, Dark Matter, and how the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics puts UP at the forefront of describing reality itself In 2012, a team at the European Organization for Nuclear ...

The Breakthrough Prize aims to honour and celebrate scientists, and inspire the next generation of scientists in society. They were founded in 2013.

Outside experts point to the promise of learning more about the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that has been controversially dubbed “the God particle,” which helped explain how matter ...

Rolex teams up with the CERN and Society Foundation to inspire interest in science and also support breakthroughs tackling ...

The jury's reasoning reads like a compendium of modern particle physics. The award was conferred for “detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass ...

acknowledging the extensive collaboration of Canada and CERN in high-energy particle physics, technology development, innovation, training and education.

However, the findings indicate a high likelihood that the particle discovered is the toponium. It all began with the search for new types of the Higgs boson particle, which was first detected in ...

The prize specifically highlighted the ATLAS Collaboration’s significant contributions to particle physics, including detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties, studies of rare processes and ...

The Higgs boson is the simplest yet most perplexing particle discovered so far, with properties that have far-reaching implications for our existence. It is related to the mechanism that enabled ...

"This prize, widely known as the Oscars of particle physics, has rewarded groundbreaking and ... Matt LeBlanc and Jennifer Roloff — continue to research the Higgs mechanism, quarks (the fundamental ...