{"id":168936,"date":"2023-08-02T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cern-physicists-measure-higgs-bosons-mass-with-unprecedented-precision"},"modified":"2023-08-02T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T23:25:09","slug":"cern-physicists-measure-higgs-bosons-mass-with-unprecedented-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cern-physicists-measure-higgs-bosons-mass-with-unprecedented-precision","title":{"rendered":"CERN Physicists Measure Higgs Boson\u2019s Mass with Unprecedented Precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-physicists-measure-higgs-bosons-mass-with-unprecedented-precision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CENR\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been making ever more precise measurements of the Higgs boson\u2019s mass since the particle\u2019s discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The new ATLAS measurement <a href=\"http:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2865479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">combines<\/a> two results: a new Higgs boson mass measurement based on an analysis of the particle\u2019s decay into two high-energy photons (diphoton channel) and an earlier mass measurement based on a study of its decay into four leptons (four-lepton channel).<\/p>\n<p>The new measurement in the diphoton channel, which combines analyses of the full ATLAS data sets from Runs 1 and 2 of the LHC, resulted in a mass of 125.22 billion electronvolts (GeV) with an uncertainty of only 0.14 GeV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CENR\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been making ever more precise measurements of the Higgs boson\u2019s mass since the particle\u2019s discovery. The new ATLAS measurement combines two results: a new Higgs boson mass measurement based on an analysis of the particle\u2019s decay into two high-energy photons (diphoton channel) and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}