- The Higgs field provides an explanation for elementary particle masses.
Higgs boson
The Higgs boson is an elementary particle one postulated by the theorist Peter Higgs. This particle is a remnant of the sponanteous symmetry breaking of electroweak interactions. It is this symmetry breaking that gives a mass to elementary particles. The Higgs is the only particle in the Standard Model of particle physics which has not yet been observed experimentally.
Searches for the Higgs in former experiments have shown that the Higgs has a mass of more than 114 GeV.
Higgs search at LHC
- Peter Higgs visits the ATLAS-Detector at LHC, CERN
One of the Large Hadron Collider's purposes is to the search for the Higgs boson. The picture above shows theorist Peter Higgs visiting ATLAS, one of the experiments at the LHC that are utilized to hunt the Higgs Boson.
Our research group in Bonn searches for the Higgs Boson in vector boson fusion processes, especially in the channels whhere the higgs decays to pairs of tau-leptons or W-bosons. (H -> tau tau and H -> WW).
For further information contact Dr. Jürgen Kroseberg.