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The Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks.  SLAC builds and operates detector components for ATLAS, one of two experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider that were involved in the discovery of the Higgs particle. 

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DOE explains...the Higgs boson

 At SLAC we are constructing the core of the biggest and fastest camera ever built to capture the Higgs boson in action.

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Bringing the Higgs Boson into Focus presented by Caterina Vernieri
A Camera for the Invisible: Bringing the Higgs Boson into Focus
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Caterina Vernieri Public Lecture: A large camera lens
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Their work will deepen our understanding of matter in extreme conditions and fundamental particle physics.

Panofsky Fellows 2018
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Tais Gorkhover, Michael Kagan, Kazuhiro Terao and Joshua Turner will each receive $2.5 million for research that studies fundamental particles, nanoscale objects, quantum materials...

Photos of SLAC's 2018 Early Career Award winners
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Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

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In this illustration, two protons collide at high energy, producing a Higgs boson that instantly decays, producing two tau particles. The rest of the...
Higgs jet diagram
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A new result from the Large Hadron Collider strengthens the case that the Higgs interacts with both types of particles in the Standard Model.

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Although physicists from two experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider recently reported at the Europhysics Conference on High Energy...

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