Higgs boson: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Penn Today - The Higgs boson discovery, 10 years later. Aug 10, 2026
Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - The Discovery of the Higgs Boson. Mar 06, 2026
Add new Web site: LSU Scholarly Repository - Search for the Higgs boson in the all-hadronic final state using the CDF II detector (PDF). Jan 23, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - RN Drive - Just what is the Higgs boson? Aug 01, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Toronto - Department of Physics - The Higgs Boson (PDF). May 19, 2025
Add new Web site: International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications - Applications of the Higgs Boson (PDF). Mar 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Physics - The Higgs boson and the International Linear Collider. Dec 12, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Higgs boson and cosmology. Aug 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - The Higgs boson turns ten. Jun 24, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign - Department of Phsics - The Higgs boson, ten yearsafter its discovery. Jan 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Exploratorium - The Higgs Boson. Oct 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Higgs boson - Particle of God? Aug 18, 2023
Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science in the era of the Higgs boson. Jun 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Space.com - Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained. Mar 31, 2023
Link added. Jan 11, 2023
Add new Web site: CERN - The Higgs boson. Nov 28, 2022
Add new Web site: LiveScience - What is the Higgs boson? Sep 05, 2022
Added videos about the standard model and the Higgs field. Dec 03, 2015
Diagrams of production and detection of Higgs boson added. Jul 15, 2014
Discussion of hypothetical nature of Higgs boson changed to reflect confirmation of its existence. Jul 15, 2014
Media revised. Jul 10, 2014
Added year (1964) Higgs proposed Higgs field, confirmation of Higgs boson in 2013, and Higgs and Englert sharing the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics. Oct 08, 2013
Add new Web site: Swansea University - Professor Peter Higgins, "My Life as a Boson". Aug 30, 2012
Add new Web site: Swansea University - Professor Peter Higgins, "My Life as a Boson". Aug 30, 2012
Add new Web site: The University of Edinburgh - School of Physics and Astronomy - Peter Higgs and the Higgs Boson. Aug 30, 2012
Add new Web site: The University of Edinburgh - School of Physics and Astronomy - Peter Higgs and the Higgs Boson. Aug 30, 2012
Add new Web site: NBC News - Cosmic Log - The Higgs Boson Made Simple. Jul 27, 2012
Add new Web site: NBC News - Cosmic Log - The Higgs Boson Made Simple. Jul 27, 2012
Updated for likely discovery of Higgs boson in 2012. Jul 05, 2012
Title of article changed to "Higgs boson." Jul 05, 2012
Constraint on mass of Higgs particle updated to "115–130 GeV." Information added about possible signal from Higgs particle at mass of 125 GeV. Dec 13, 2011
Mass range for Higgs particle updated from "114-156 and 183-185 gigaelectron volts" to "114-145 gigaelectron volts." Sep 30, 2011
Video of Encyclopædia Britannica editor Erik Gregersen explaining the Higgs particle added. Jun 28, 2011
Constraints on mass of Higgs particle updated from "114–158 and 175–185" GeV to "114–156 and 183–185" GeV. May 18, 2011
Added constraints on mass of Higgs particle. Aug 11, 2010
Added title variant and popular name of "God particle." Feb 25, 2009
Article revised and updated. Sep 16, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jul 20, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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