A new measurement by CERN’s ATLAS Collaboration has strengthened evidence that the masses of fundamental particles originate through their interaction with the Higgs field. Building on earlier results ...
Scientists may have observed the Higgs boson doing a new trick: creating pairs of muons. When the Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, it was the final piece of ...
PSI researcher Malte Hildebrandt as he works on the MuCap detector. (Courtesy: Paul Scherrer Institute/Markus Fischer) The rate at which protons capture muons has been accurately measured for the ...