Thirteen years after its discovery, the Higgs boson remains a mystery. AI is already putting an end to it.

The Higgs boson is important because it allows us to understand how elementary particles acquire mass.

CERN physicists have a very powerful tool that they didn’t have until recently: AI.

Today, physicists continue to study the properties of the Higgs boson. In fact, it’s so important to understand this particle better that CERN technicians have made the necessary modifications to the LHC, their largest particle accelerator, to produce several million Higgs bosons over the next two or three years. This machine is currently operating at a higher energy level in the hope of verifying whether this boson is truly a fundamental particle or, on the contrary, whether it has an internal structure.

The Higgs boson is important because it allows us to understand how elementary particles acquire mass as a result of their interaction with the Higgs field. Without this mechanism, the Standard Model, which is still the most successful theory in physics today, would be invalid. Either way, CERN physicists have a plan to understand it better.

AI is already helping particle physicists decipher the Higgs boson
Scientists at CERN have attempted to recreate the conditions necessary to produce as many Higgs boson pairs as possible simultaneously and in the same place. This is by no means a whimsical endeavor. Their intention is to study the interaction between two of these particles because they suspect it is a fundamental mechanism of the Standard Model that can help them understand how the Higgs boson contributes to sustaining the stability of our universe.