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 ...

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

This scenario is known as false vacuum decay, a spectacular fan favourite (it’s me, I am the fan). Why is it a fan favorite?

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 ...

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 ...

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

In 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN jointly announced the discovery of the ...