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1 month ago
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Peter Higgs, a Giant of Particle Physics, Dies at 94

Peter Higgs proposed the existence of an elementary particle that gives mass to other particles, later confirmed as the Higgs boson in 2012.
Higgs and Francois Englert shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for predicting the Higgs boson's existence, a crucial component of the standard model in particle physics. [ more ]
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Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called 'God particle,' has died

Peter Higgs proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle that helped explain the formation of matter after the Big Bang.
Higgs' groundbreaking 1964 paper on the Higgs boson later led to the confirmation of the particle at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. [ more ]
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3 months ago
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Large Hadron Collider's $17-Billion Successor Moves Forward

Europe plans to build a supercollider to study the Higgs boson in detail.
The feasibility study for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) found no barriers to its construction. [ more ]
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