{"id":217690,"date":"2025-07-12T02:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/higgs-boson-properties-clarified-through-decay-pattern-analysis"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:15:27","slug":"higgs-boson-properties-clarified-through-decay-pattern-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/higgs-boson-properties-clarified-through-decay-pattern-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Higgs-boson properties clarified through decay pattern analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/higgs-boson-properties-clarified-through-decay-pattern-analysis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.<\/p>\n<p>Studies of the properties of the Higgs boson featured prominently in the program of the major annual physics conference, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eps-hep2025.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics<\/a> (EPS-HEP), held this week in Marseille, France. Among the results <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/33627\/contributions\/153132\" target=\"_blank\">presented<\/a> by the ATLAS collaboration were two results narrowing in on two exceptionally rare Higgs-boson decays.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas.web.cern.ch\/Atlas\/GROUPS\/PHYSICS\/PAPERS\/HIGP-2024-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">first process under study<\/a> was the Higgs-boson decay into a pair of muons (H\u2192\u03bc\u03bc). Despite its scarceness\u2014occurring in just 1 out of every 5,000 Higgs decays\u2014this process provides the best opportunity to study the Higgs interaction with second-generation fermions and shed light on the origin of mass across different generations. Up to now, the interactions of the Higgs boson with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/matter+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">matter particles<\/a> have only been observed for particles from the third, heaviest, generation: the tau lepton and the top and bottom quarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon. Studies of the properties of the Higgs boson featured prominently in the program of the major annual physics conference, the 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), held this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217690","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}