Read article 'Boosting sensitivity to new physics'
The LHC is a tremendously powerful tool built to explore physics at the tera-electron-volt scale. This year it is being operated with a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, which is a little over half of ...
Read article 'Tevatron experiments observe evidence for Higgs-like particle'
The CDF and DØ collaborations at Fermilab have found evidence for the production of a Higgs-like particle decaying into a pair of bottom and antibottom quarks, independent of the recently announced H...
Read article 'A day to remember'
A summary of this issue of the CERN Courier featuring the discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July this year.
Read article 'Discovery of a new boson – the ATLAS perspective'
ATLAS reports on their side of the story regarding the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Read article '4 July 2012: a day to remember'
Looking back to the day when the Standard Model was completed.
Read article 'Inside story: the search in CMS for the Higgs boson'
The search for the Standard Model Higgs boson, the missing keystone of the current framework for describing elementary particles and forces, has been going on for some 40 years.
Read article 'Particle-physics fever in Melbourne'
A wave of optimism at ICHEP2012.
Read article 'An important day for science'
CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, looks beyond the results announced on 4 July to a wider significance.
Read article 'Seeing bosons in heavy-ion collisions'
Studies of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC are challenging and refining ideas on how to probe QCD – the theory of the strong interaction – at high temperature and density.
Read article 'CMS discovers the Ξb*0'
The new state is observed with a significance exceeding 5σ and a mass of 5945.0 ± 2.8 MeV.
