This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

The standard model (SM) of particle physics has developed as a result of painstaking work, over several decades, by a large number of physicists. It is a quantum field theory, combining quantum ...

ARC Research Associate (Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at Tera Scale), University of Adelaide On July 4, 2012, two experiments (ATLAS and CMS) at CERN announced the discovery of a new boson ...

Last week, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle-smasher at CERN, in Europe, reported that they had detected a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson particle and a photon.