Six years after discovering the Higgs boson in 2012, which was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics, physicists have observed how the particle decays into fundamental particles called bottom quarks (b quarks) at CERN.
The finding provides major support for the Standard Model, which has many implications for how we understand the world and the universe.
But, although the Standard Model predicts what happens to the Higgs boson when it dies, until now, researchers hadn’t observed the particle decay into b quarks.
