Higgs boson - Wikipedia
Both the field and the boson are named after physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964, along with five other scientists in three teams, proposed the Higgs mechanism, a way for some particles to …
The Higgs boson - CERN
Discovering the Higgs boson was just the beginning. In the ten years since, physicists have examined how strongly it interacts with other particles, to see if this matches theoretical …
Higgs boson | Physics, Particle Physics & Standard Model ...
Dec 9, 2025 · The Higgs field is different from other fundamental fields—such as the electromagnetic field —that underlie the basic forces between particles. First, it is a scalar …
Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained - Space
Apr 10, 2024 · The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, Switzerland.
Peter Higgs: science mourns giant of particle physics - Nature
Apr 10, 2024 · Few scientists have come into as much fame in recent years as British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, the namesake of the boson that was discovered in 2012, who died on 8 …
DOE Explains...the Higgs Boson | Department of Energy
The Higgs boson was proposed in 1964 by Peter Higgs, François Englert, and four other theorists to explain why certain particles have mass. Scientists confirmed its existence in 2012 through …
Peter Higgs – Facts - NobelPrize.org
Apr 8, 2024 · Peter Higgs was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, to a Scottish mother and an English father who worked as a sound engineer at the BBC. Because he suffered from …