Math & science · 2012

Higgs boson

The LHC finds the last missing particle of the Standard Model.

ATLAS and CMS announced a boson at about 125 GeV on 4 July 2012, confirming how fundamental particles get mass. Higgs and Englert shared the 2013 Nobel.

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What it built on 2

Large Hadron Collider 2008
Standard Model 1974

What it led to 1

Dark matter identified ~2045

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