What is the Higgs boson?

Name: What is the Higgs boson?
Uploaded: 2012-07-04T12:02:50.000Z
Duration: 53 s
Description: Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

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Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass.

Both of the Higgs boson-hunting experiments at the LHC see a level of certainty in their data worthy of a "discovery".

More work will be needed to be certain that what they see is a Higgs, however.

George Alagiah puts it in context:

Science & Environment

4 July 2012