The Higgs boson plays a crucial role in the standard model of particle physics. It is the only particle whose field has nonzero vacuum expectation value. It’s like having a special wave whose status of minimum energy (the “vacuum”) has an…
The Higgs boson was one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the last decades and opened the doors to a new era for particle physics: unveiling its mysteries and measuring its properties. We already know a lot about how the Higgs boson is…
More than a decade after the discovery of the Higgs boson, we still expect this particle to give us first-hand information about theories that can solve some of the shortcomings of the standard model of particle physics (SM). For example, the…
It is easy to recognize your friends in a street if they are standing or walking, but what if they are riding a supercar at a speed of 150 km per hour? In the Large Hadron Collider, if the energy of two partons from two colliding protons is about…
A new search conducted by the CMS collaboration is exploring Higgs bosons with very high energy. Measuring how many high-energy Higgs bosons are created in proton-proton collisions can tell us about new Higgs interactions, either with known…
In a much anticipated result, the CMS experiment presents the legacy combination of Higgs boson studies using the full LHC Run 2 data, recorded between 2016 and 2018 – the result is the most precise and comprehensive measurement of the Higgs…