Landmark Papers on the Higgs Boson Published and Freely Available in Elsevier's Physics Letters B

Landmark Papers on the Higgs Boson Published and Freely Available in Elsevier's Physics Letters B PR Newswire AMSTERDAM, September 10, 2012 AMSTERDAM, September 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Physics Letters B, Elsevier's flagship journal in high energy physics, announced today that the observations of the long-sought Higgs particle, hailed as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, have been published. The papers: "Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC" and "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" are freely available online on ScienceDirect. In July 2012, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva announced they had captured a new particle that may be the elusive Higgs Boson in two gigantic experiments, ATLAS and CMS, both of which independently confirmed the particle's existence. A worldwide collaboration of more than 5,000 researchers contributed to the discovery. "These papers present the first observations of a new particle discovered by two big experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson which has spanned many decades and has involved many experiments," explains physicist Joe Incandela, spokesperson of the CMS experiment. "They are the most important papers to come from the LHC so far and the findings are key to the field of particle physics.