Higgs boson

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois. The larger ring houses the Tevatron, a particle accelerator that operated until 2011, when it was shut because its capabilities had been superseded by the LHC. Credit: pedrik/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

All You Need to Know to Get Started on Particle Physics

This image shows a collision event with a photon pair observed by the CMS detector in proton-collision data collected in 2015 with no magnetic field present. The energy deposits of the two photons are represented by the two large green towers. The mass of the di-photon system is between 700 and 800 GeV. The candidates are consistent with what is expected for prompt isolated photons. Caption & credit © 2016 CERN

Physicists Excited as Prospects for Suspected New Fundamental Particle Improve

A Higgs boson decaying into 2 tau leptons (azure cones), which subsequently decay into either an electron (blue line) or a muon (red line). Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Q&A With Scientists From the World’s Largest Science Experiment