The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)—the world's largest particle physics laboratory—today published results that mark a significant milestone in the physics of the Higgs boson and its interactions with Standard Model particles. The observations, made with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and published in
Physical Review Letters,
show the Higgs boson decaying into pairs of bottom quarks. The CMS discovery team includes a group from Caltech led by Harvey Newman, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, and Maria Spiropulu, the Shang-Yi Ch'en Professor of Physics.
Read the CERN news release at
https://home.cern/about/updates/2018/08/long-sought-decay-higgs-boson-observed
.
A news release issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on behalf of the U.S. scientists working on the LHC is at
http://news.fnal.gov/2018/08/lhc-scientists-detect-most-favored-higgs-decay/
.
More information about the CMS observations is online at
http://cms.cern/higgs-observed-decaying-b-quarks-submitted
.
