At the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have recorded a rare decay of the Higgs boson

The Large Hadron Collider is a truly unique international project, thanks to which scientists reveal the most cherished secrets of the universe. So the completely independent experiments CMS and ATLAS made statements that they had discovered the extremely rare decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of muons. Let's talk about this discovery.

This discovery is very important for the entire scientific community, since the analysis of the data obtained showed that the detection of such a decay fully fits into the predictions of the Standard Model.

And this is the first ever recorded decay of Higgs bosons into second-generation particles. This is a high-profile event within fundamental physics.

What is the Higgs boson

This particle was discovered back in 2012, and since then scientists at CERN have been actively studying it.

So, according to the Standard Theory, Boson has an extremely short life cycle and is only 10-22 seconds. After this time, the particle decays.

Moreover, the variants of its disintegration are quite clearly defined, and each deviation can serve as the birth of an absolutely new physics.

That is why CMS and ATLAS have been accumulating decay statistics for many years.

How the rare Higgs boson decay was discovered

In order to detect this decay, scientists had to work hard. After all, the difficulty lies in the fact that the muon pair (into which the boson decays) can also be generated in thousands of other interactions.

Therefore, in order to find the right pair, the scientists looked only for those whose total mass corresponded to the mass Boson (equal to 125 gigaelectronvolts), and the vectors of their expansion said that they flew out of one points.

For such a search, machine processing, modeling, and other techniques were used, which made it possible to maximize the sensitivity of decay registration.

Scientists continue to collect statistical data and soon hope to reach the required statistical accuracy, in order to tell the entire world community that it was they who discovered the decay of the Higgs boson into a couple of muons.

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