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When was the Higgs boson discovered?
Quick Answer
In 2012, CERN’s ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of a Higgs-like particle. It was later confirmed as the Higgs boson.
The Full Story
CERN announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson on 4 July 2012. The result came from the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. The particle matched the long-sought Higgs boson predicted in the 1960s as part of the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. The discovery was a landmark in particle physics and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for François Englert and Peter Higgs.
Key Facts
1.Discovery announced on 4 July 2012
2.ATLAS and CMS both saw the particle
3.The Higgs mechanism had been proposed in the 1960s
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