CERN physicists find new particle considered Higgs boson

CERN physicists find new particle considered Higgs boson

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Asai (L back), associate professor at the University of Tokyo, speaks to researchers and reporters at the university in Tokyo on July 4, 2012. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced the same day the discovery of a new particle believed to be the so-called Higgs boson, the most fundamental particle that gives mass to all other elementary particles. Asai was among the members of the Atlas group of scientists at CERN, which has confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson with a certainty of more than 99.9999%.

CERN physicists find new particle considered Higgs boson

CERN physicists find new particle considered Higgs boson

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Asai, associate professor at the University of Tokyo, speaks at a press conference at the university in Tokyo on July 4, 2012. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced the same day the discovery of a new particle believed to be the so-called Higgs boson, the most fundamental particle that gives mass to all other elementary particles. Asai was among the members of the Atlas group of scientists at CERN, which has confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson with a certainty of more than 99.9999%.

CERN physicists find new particle considered Higgs boson

CERN physicists find new particle considered Higgs boson

GENEVA, Switzerland - British physicist Peter Higgs is surrounded by reporters prior to a press conference at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in a suburb of Geneva on July 4, 2012. CERN announced the same day the discovery of a new particle believed to be the so-called Higgs boson, the most fundamental particle that gives mass to all other elementary particles. The Higgs boson was theorized by Higgs at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, among others, in 1964.