Penn physicists were among more than 13,000 researchers from 70 countries who shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental ...

The detection of longitudinally polarized W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards ...

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 ...

"We don't know the frequency, so we need to keep tuning and trying different ones, like searching for a good radio station ...

According to Sridhara Dasu, who is a particle physicist and professor at the UW Department of Physics, the Higgs boson is an elementary particle and the main component of the Higgs field. The Higgs ...

Scientists from UMass Amherst are among the researchers worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental ...

Intriguing signs from CERN hint at a never-before-seen form of matter – one that could be the tiniest particle cluster ever detected. Top quarks, typically too short-lived to pair up, may have briefly ...

University of Auckland nuclear physicist David Krofcheck is recognised for his work on the world's greatest science ...

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

The importance of the Higgs boson to our fundamental understanding of the Universe is reflected in the large number of ESPP submissions calling for deeper study of this unique particle and associated ...