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Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize winner and “father” of the famous boson, has died
He gained fame for winning the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his work on the “Higgs boson,” an elementary particle considered the keystone of the fundamental structure of matter. British…
Physics: Ten years of the Higgs boson: what remains in particle physics
For almost 50 years, physicists have been looking for evidence of the “God particle” Higgs boson. In 2012 they were able to announce the discovery. Is that the end of…
New physics: W boson heavier than thought? – Knowledge
One of the fundamental particles of physics may be significantly heavier than the conventional laws of physics allow. The measurement could therefore be a sign of the longed-for “new physics”…