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The Large Hadron Collider LHC is down for an upgrade. Photo: CERN

Why is the mass of the Higgs particle lighter than expected?

Researchers have built a model according to which the mass of the Higgs boson, which helps produce the mass of elementary particles, changed in the early universe, and is therefore much smaller than the standard model of particle physics describes
Celebrations at the CERN Control Center (CCC) to mark the start of the third run of the LHC (Photo: CERN)

The Large Hadron Collider in Sarn is back in operation

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In the third run, the particles will be bombarded with an energy intensity of 13.6 TeV, which may help to better understand the properties of the Higgs boson and its interaction with matter, and perhaps also discover clues about dark matter
A visual illustration of one of the collisions observed in the Atlas detector, and is an example of the type of processes we are looking for, and the signature they leave in our detectors. In this case a Higgs boson is created, together with another massive boson called Z (the carrier of the weak force). The blue cones and the yellow rectangles adjacent to them represent the pair of quarks into which the Higgs decayed, in this case they are of the magic type. The Z decays into two particles called muons, which can be identified by the red lines in the image. From the CERN website

For the first time, the Higgs boson was characterized by its decay into a pair of "magic" quarks

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Researchers from Tel Aviv University were able to describe for the first time a rare physical process that begins with the Higgs boson - the "divine particle" that was first observed about a decade ago - and eventually decays into a pair of rare elementary particles * New observations from the Sarn particle accelerator in Switzerland helped researchers understand the process more clearly
An event of the Higgs boson decaying into two muons. Photo: Atlas Partnership, CERN

CERN experiments announce initial evidence of rare Higgs boson decay into muons 

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The cover of the book "The Divine Particle"

The divine particle - the Higgs boson and the greatest hunt in science: "not the end of the world"

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Formation of a b quark pair as a result of the decay of the Higgs particle. The two green areas in the image are the signatures of two particle jets created by the quarks. Figure courtesy of ATLAS Collaboration/CERN

Another observational verification of the Higgs boson

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From the Inside Cern exhibition by the photographer Andrei Paul. Courtesy of Weizmann Institute spokespersons

6/4 in the port of Jaffa Inside CERN, with the participation of scientists from Switzerland and Israel. Free entry for the general public

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The particle accelerator in the axle. Source: Techtime.

CERN is looking for Israeli technologies for a new particle accelerator

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Computer simulation of the proposed ILC particle accelerator. Source: the project website.

The particle accelerator that can save physics

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Section of an old accelerator in the open museum at CERN. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

CERN tour notes, part 21: Prof. Elam Gross: The discovery of the Higgs is the beginning of the new science of the XNUMXst century

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Prof. Stephen Hawking, at the Pride of Britain 2013 conference. Photo: shutterstock

Stephen Hawking: It would have been better if the Higgs particle had not been discovered (update)

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Prof. Francois Engler, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. From Wikipedia

Prof. Francois Engler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is also a researcher at the Tel Aviv School of Physics * Prof. Rabinovitch's response from Hebrew on the Nobel: Justice has been done

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Prof. Elam Gross. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Prof. Elam Gross, center of the Higgs Atlas Group: "You can remove the term "like" from the particle, and be sure that it is a Higgs boson"

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A possible discovery with the ATLAS detector shows the traces of four muons (in red) created by the decay of the short-lived Higgs boson [http://cds.cern.ch/record/1459496]

Saran: The particle discovered about a year ago is indeed the Higgs boson or the 'God particle'

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A collision product in the Atlas experiment that may be a Higgs particle. Figure: Atlas experiment at CERN; December 2012

The end of the world - the science version: "If indeed the mass of the Higgs boson is as shown by the experiments at the axis, an empty bubble will swallow the universe"

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A collision product in the Atlas experiment that may be a Higgs particle. Figure: Atlas experiment at CERN; December 2012

2012 – a fascinating scientific year!

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From the right: Prof. Giora Mickenberg, Prof. Elam Gross and Prof. Ehud Duchovani. Long Journey

The particle everyone was waiting for

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A collision product in the Atlas experiment that may be a Higgs particle. Figure: Atlas experiment at CERN; December 2012

The existence of the Higgs particle

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This graph, called the sombrero hat graph, describes the different energy states of the field, according to the Higgs mechanism. The higher you go (V axis in the graph), the higher the energy. The other axes indicate the values ​​that the field can have. In state 1 (up the hill) the field (and its particles) have a very high minimum energy, as it was immediately after the big bang. In state 2 there was any change and the field immediately dropped to a new minimum energy state, much lower than the previous state. Note that the field has infinitely many such new states of minimum energy, around the energy hill. All these states have the same low energy. But when the field goes down it randomly chooses one state out of all these possible states. This choice broke the symmetry of the minimum energy states into a single state that the field selected. Source: higgs_Gerard_t_Hooft__Scholarpedia

Higgs fields forever

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Professor Shlomit Terem and her colleagues in Geneva

Technion researchers and the "divine particle"

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Atlas facility at the LHC particle accelerator at CERN. PR photo of CERN

The Higgs Boson: A Guide to Intellectual Living Room Conversations

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Proton collision simulation at the Axis particle accelerator, LHC. Illustration: Weizmann Institute

"From now on we are no longer looking for the Higgs - we are measuring its properties. This is the happiest day of my life"

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A collision product in the Atlas experiment that may be a Higgs particle. Figure: Atlas experiment at CERN; December 2012

The Axis particle accelerator reports the discovery of a new particle that matches the predicted Higgs in its properties

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The CDF detector in the Tevatron particle accelerator during its construction.

Higgs boson is getting closer: Premilab scientists claim to have narrowed the search range. Tomorrow an announcement is expected at the particle accelerator at CERN

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Prof. David Gross, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. From Wikipedia

The divine particle arrives at the Hebrew University

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