Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Found a Portal to the Fifth Dimension

The study seeks to explain the presence of dark matter using a WED model. The scientists studied fermion masses, which they ...

Could mass arise without the Higgs boson?

The geometry of space, where physical laws unfold, may also hold answers to some of the deepest questions in fundamental ...
Brown University

Q&A: Brown physicist on the Higgs boson and whether it might change the fate of the universe

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

The beginning of the universe: Cosmic inflation with standard particle physics repertoire

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...
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First-ever single top quark production with W and Z bosons observed by scientists

The astonishing result, achieved by the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) collaboration, represents the first-ever observation of ...
Purdue University

Purdue physicists part of discovery of rare particle decay predicted by the Standard Model

Red lines show the disintegration of a B-sub-s into two muons in the CMS camera at the Large Hadron Collider. Yello, green and blue are used to denote particles other than muons. Purdue University ...
The Conversation

Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

Harald Fox receives funding from UKRI. Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, has died aged 94. He was always a modest man, especially when considering that ...