Physicists Detect Rare Higgs Boson Decay Signals

Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have discovered the first evidence of the extremely rare transformation of the Higgs boson, which could hint at unknown particles. The results fall within the range of what the Standard Model predicts, but the process can be improved to help determine where exotic new forces and building blocks might exist. The Higgs particle became the darling of the physics world in 2012 when evidence of its existence was confirmed, and its observation promised to be a window into hidden parts of the quantum realm.