{"id":82173,"date":"2018-08-28T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/scientists-observe-decay-of-higgs-boson-particle-into-two-bottom-quarks"},"modified":"2018-08-28T23:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:22:47","slug":"scientists-observe-decay-of-higgs-boson-particle-into-two-bottom-quarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/scientists-observe-decay-of-higgs-boson-particle-into-two-bottom-quarks","title":{"rendered":"Scientists observe decay of Higgs boson particle into two bottom quarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-observe-decay-of-higgs-boson-particle-into-two-bottom-quarks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aug. 28 (UPI) \u2014 Particle physicists have finally witnessed the decay of a Higgs boson particle into two bottom quarks.<\/p>\n<p>Models predict Higgs boson particles decay into two bottom quarks 60 percent of the time. Bottom quarks, or b quarks, are the second heaviest of the six types of quarks.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have struggled to directly observe the predicted decay. Several types of proton-proton collisions can produce bottom quarks, making it difficult to link quarks produced by particle collisions with decaying Higgs boson particles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/08\/28\/Scientists-observe-decay-of-Higgs-boson-particle-into-two-bottom-quarks\/1371535463666\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/08\/28\/Scientists-obser...535463666\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 28 (UPI) \u2014 Particle physicists have finally witnessed the decay of a Higgs boson particle into two bottom quarks. Models predict Higgs boson particles decay into two bottom quarks 60 percent of the time. Bottom quarks, or b quarks, are the second heaviest of the six types of quarks. Scientists have struggled to directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82173","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}