The shutdown, which began on June 29, marks the start of a planned four-year upgrade that will transform the collider into a ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 ...

As the Large Hadron Collider switches off its beams for a four-year overhaul, the question is no longer what it has found but whether anything bigger is worth building ...

The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 marked a significant milestone in particle physics. Since then, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations have been diligently ...

CMS has improved the constraints on the Higgs width, a fundamental property of this unique new particle, by more than two orders of magnitude. Nearly two years after its discovery, there is much to ...

The tentative confirmation this week of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," was made possible in part by contributions from physicists at The Johns Hopkins University, who ...

On a fall morning in 2009, a team of three young physicists huddled around a computer screen in a small office overlooking Broadway in New York. They were dressed for success—even the graduate student ...

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this was ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

When Paul Glaysher was approaching the end of his master's degree in 2012, everyone was talking about the Higgs boson. After two years of smashing protons together, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. “Higgs” is Peter Higgs, a professor at Edinburgh, who made ...