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Long-sought decay of the Higgs boson seen

Measurements of the strength of interactions between the Higgs boson and other particles test the current model of particle physics. A key part of this model has been confirmed by observing the most common decay of the Higgs boson.
  1. Boris Tuchming

    1. Boris Tuchming is at the Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe and in the Department of Particle Physics, CEA University of Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

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In 2012, the famous Higgs boson was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations in proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland1,2. Now, writing in Physics Letters B3 and Physical Review Letters4, the two collaborations report the observation of the Higgs boson decaying to a pair of elementary particles known as bottom quarks. This milestone in particle physics confirms the role of the Higgs field — the quantum field associated with the Higgs boson — in providing particles of matter with mass.

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Nature 564, 46-47 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07405-x

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