A particle consistent with the Higgs Boson observed with the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider

Nearly 50 years ago, theoretical physicists proposed that a field permeates the universe and gives energy to the vacuum. This field was required to explain why some, but not all, fundamental particles have mass. Numerous precision measurements during recent decades have provided indirect support for...

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Main Author: Onofre, A. (author)
Other Authors: Castro, Nuno Filipe (author), ATLAS Collaboration (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/57592
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/57592