{"id":244395,"date":"2026-09-23T01:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cern-physicists-find-evidence-of-one-of-higgs-bosons-rarest-decays"},"modified":"2026-09-23T01:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:18:52","slug":"cern-physicists-find-evidence-of-one-of-higgs-bosons-rarest-decays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cern-physicists-find-evidence-of-one-of-higgs-bosons-rarest-decays","title":{"rendered":"CERN Physicists Find Evidence of One of Higgs Boson\u2019s Rarest Decays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-physicists-find-evidence-of-one-of-higgs-bosons-rarest-decays.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found evidence of the Higgs boson decaying into a \u2018virtual\u2019 photon and a real photon, which in turn produces a pair of leptons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found evidence of the Higgs boson decaying into a \u2018virtual\u2019 photon and a real photon, which in turn produces a pair of leptons.<\/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-244395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244395","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=244395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}