WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday (Oct. 8) was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their work in developing the theory of the Higgs field, and Purdue ...

So we don’t really know what this new material ether is. We know its name: the Higgs condensate [or Higgs field], after Peter Higgs, a Scots physicist who pioneered some of these ideas. The simplest ...

There’s a big difference between the mass of a top quark, the heaviest fundamental particle discovered so far, and the mass of an electron, one of the lightest. To get their differing masses, ...

Physicists hope to find the Higgs boson, key to a unified field theory, this year after a long hunt. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

The Higgs boson is the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, ... Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, for their Higgs field theory.

There are currently two pieces of evidence that a Higgs boson does exist. The first is indirect. According to quantum field theory, all particles spend a little time as combinations of all other ...

What is the Higgs field and why is it a fundamental part of our universe? Quantum Field Theory is generally accepted as an accurate description of the subatomic universe. However until recently ...

Higgs started that work at the University of Edinburgh in the UK in the 1960s. He was thinking about a branch of physics called quantum field theory, and in July of 1964, he took about a week to ...