{"id":235741,"date":"2026-04-23T02:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/atlas-sets-record-limits-on-higgs-bosons-self-interaction"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:33:59","slug":"atlas-sets-record-limits-on-higgs-bosons-self-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/atlas-sets-record-limits-on-higgs-bosons-self-interaction","title":{"rendered":"ATLAS sets record limits on Higgs boson\u2019s self-interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atlas-sets-record-limits-on-higgs-bosons-self-interaction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest open questions in particle physics today is how the Higgs boson interacts with itself. This \u201cself-coupling\u201d could help explain the evolution of the early universe and the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. To try to shed light on this fundamental interaction, the ATLAS Collaboration has recently studied one of the \u201cgolden\u201d decay channels of a pair of Higgs bosons, where one Higgs boson decays into two photons and the other into a pair of bottom quarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest open questions in particle physics today is how the Higgs boson interacts with itself. This \u201cself-coupling\u201d could help explain the evolution of the early universe and the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. To try to shed light on this fundamental interaction, the ATLAS Collaboration has recently studied one 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":[385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235741","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=235741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}