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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
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
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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The tube where the protons flow towards the collision, inside the CERN tunnel. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Accelerator scientists at CERN have developed electron acceleration technology using plasma waves

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

The future of CERN and the Chinese competitor - 100 km long tunnels

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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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The search for the dark quark

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The accelerators of the future will be tiny and use antimatter

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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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LHC - PR photo: CERN

Disappointment in an accelerator in Switzerland: the particle that wasn't there

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From the right: Dan Shaked-Reno, Avital Deri, Dr. Shakma Bresler, Ayelet Efrati, Mathias Bierman, Luca Moleri. The structure of the material

The physics beyond the horizon

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A section of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel. Photo: CERN

The physicist community is expecting new discoveries with the restart of the Axial Accelerator, after it has been upgraded to 13 TeV

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Illustration illustrating how the particle's track propagates from the point of collision between the photons at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The event shows properties expected from Higgs boson science as predicted by the Standard Model for a pair of photons.

New evidence strengthens the discovery of the Higgs - the particle responsible for mass

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Dr. Noam Tal Hood, post-doctoral student at the NIKHEF Institute. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

CERN Tour Notes Chapter 6: In Search of the Tau Particle

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Dr. Enrique Kromowicz, Duke University. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

CERN tour notes Part 5: The Israeli researcher participating in the search for new 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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CERN tour notes, part 3: Will we only sail if we know there's an America across the ocean? Prof. Eliezer Rabinovitch from the Hebrew University on the importance of basic science (Gallery - LHC)

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Prof. Richard Jacobson, guide of Israeli ethnologists at LHCb, April 29, 2014. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

CERN tour notes Part II: The door leading to the Big Bang

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CERN Director General Prof. Rolf Hoyer in a conversation with Israeli journalists at the organization's management offices in Geneva. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Cern CEO Rolf Hoyer: My dream is to find the first particle of dark matter. First article following a tour of the Cern facilities

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Director General of CERN, Dr. Rolf Heuer, in a lecture at Tel Aviv University, 10/4/14. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The bright future of the dark universe

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In the photo, the experiment at the underground point No. 8 in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The big tube is the tunnel through which the LHC beam passes, where protons spin at a speed close to the speed of light. Photo: Anna Patanlia/CERN

The Axis particle accelerator, LHC, confirmed the existence of an exotic hadron

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From the right: Prof. Shlomit Terem, Prof. Giura Mikenberg, Prof. Hiro Yuasaki from Japan against the background of the sensors in the Atlas facility at CERN, most of which were manufactured in Israel and some in Japan. (Photo: Avi Blizovsky, July 2008)

The Israeli employees of the particle accelerator will enjoy diplomatic immunity and exemption from income tax

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XNUMXD imaging of post-collision particles at the LHC particle accelerator at Sarn near Geneva. Illustration: shutterstock

An anomaly was discovered in the CERN data - is the new physics a horse or a zebra?

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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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