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Celebrating 11 Years Since Higgs Boson's Groundbreaking Discovery

5/4/2025

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The Higgs boson, discovered on July 4, 2012, at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is essential for giving mass to particles, allowing stars, planets, and life to exist. This groundbreaking discovery validated the Standard Model of Particle Physics, with the University of Birmingham playing a pivotal role in this research for over 70 years.

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The Higgs boson, discovered on July 4, 2012, at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is essential for giving mass to particles, allowing stars, planets, and life to exist. This groundbreaking discovery validated the Standard Model of Particle Physics, with the University of Birmingham playing a pivotal role in this research for over 70 years.