{"id":226544,"date":"2025-12-05T00:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/cerns-atlas-detects-evidence-for-decay-of-higgs-boson-into-muon-antimuon-pair"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:33:55","slug":"cerns-atlas-detects-evidence-for-decay-of-higgs-boson-into-muon-antimuon-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/cerns-atlas-detects-evidence-for-decay-of-higgs-boson-into-muon-antimuon-pair","title":{"rendered":"CERN\u2019s ATLAS detects evidence for decay of Higgs boson into muon\u2013antimuon pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cerns-atlas-detects-evidence-for-decay-of-higgs-boson-into-muon-antimuon-pair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since then, it has continued to be heavily studied at the LHC. Now, a new study from the researchers at CERN combines the last two runs of ATLAS\u2014one of the two general-purpose detectors at the LHC\u2014to lay out evidence that the Higgs boson can decay into a muon\u2013antimuon pair.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/gzdh-p159\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, reports a significance of 3.4 standard deviations of excess signal over background, when the two runs are combined\u2014higher than previous evidence from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) of 3.0 standard deviations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since then, it has continued to be heavily studied at the LHC. Now, a new study from the researchers at CERN combines the last two runs of ATLAS\u2014one of [\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-226544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226544","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=226544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}