Read article 'Through the Higgs portal'
Through the Higgs portal
Frank Wilczek explains why the Higgs sector could act as a portal through which to access a wide class of “phantom” particles that might otherwise elude detection.
Read article 'Through the Higgs portal'
Read article 'The thrill of the chase'
The thrill of the chase
Confirming the electroweak Standard Model drove three major projects at CERN spanning three decades, culminating in the discovery of the Higgs boson on 4 July 2012. Matthew Chalmers captures a glimpse...
Read article 'A triumph for theory'
A triumph for theory
Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on how renormalisation elevated the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism to a consistent theory capable of making testable predictions.
Read article 'The origin of particle masses'
The origin of particle masses
Gilad Perez links the Higgs boson to the puzzling pattern of the fermion masses.
Read article 'The Higgs and the fate of the universe'
The Higgs and the fate of the universe
The masses of the Higgs boson and the top quark hint that there must be physics beyond the SM that prevents the universe from decaying into a new vacuum state, argues John Ellis.
Read article 'The Higgs boson under the microscope'
The Higgs boson under the microscope
Ten years of experimental scrutiny by ATLAS and CMS strongly suggest the Higgs boson originates from the minimal Higgs sector required by the Standard Model.
Read article 'Naturalness after the Higgs'
Naturalness after the Higgs
Either new particles are keeping the Higgs boson light, or the universe is oddly fine-tuned for our existence. Nathaniel Craig goes down the rabbit hole of the electroweak hierarchy problem.
Read article 'The bumpy ride to the bump'
The bumpy ride to the bump
Mike Lamont recounts the herculean effort that brought the LHC to life and steered it to discovery.
Read article 'Stepping into the spotlight'
Stepping into the spotlight
In an excerpt from his new book Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass, Frank Close recounts the story of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Read article 'Electroweak baryogenesis'
Electroweak baryogenesis
There are many different ways to explain the cosmic matter–antimatter asymmetry, says Géraldine Servant, but the Higgs boson plays a key role in essentially all of them.
