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Higgs Boson

2012
PhysicsQuantum Field Theory & Particle PhysicsEmpirical Resultfoundational

Joint discovery of the Higgs boson, announced July 4 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC -- confirming the Higgs mechanism proposed independently in 1964 by Higgs, by Englert & Brout, and by Guralnik, Hagen & Kibble, 48 years earlier. Companion CMS paper: OpenAlex W2167727518. Englert and Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize.

Discovery Velocity

Normalized OpenAlex paper velocity, one point per year.

Originators

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • CMS Collaboration

Landmark Paper

W1858542512 ↗
Not retracted (OpenAlex)

Checked 2026-08-30 — interim signal only, see docs/BASIC_ROADMAP.md Phase 10

Connections

No verified edges into the applied tree or elsewhere in Basic yet — never rendered as fabricated, just absent.