Peter Higgs and the Higgs Boson

Welcome to the Higgs site at the University of Edinburgh

4th July 2012: CERN announces discovery of a new particle, consistent with the Higgs boson.

14th March 2013: Updated results from ATLAS and CMS confirm even more strongly the new particle is the Higgs boson.  CERN Press Release

On 31 July 2012 the ATLAS and CMS experiment place their papers, submitted for publication reporting the discovery of the new particle, on the HEP archive. ATLAS showed a larger signal than at the CERN Press Conference on July 4 2012.  ATLAS Paper  CMS Paper

Explore to find out about Peter Higgs, Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, and the discovery and investigations of a particle that  looks very much like the Higgs boson!

 

Last updated on Thursday, 14 March 2013 - 2:06pm