An elusive Higgs boson decay has finally been spotted

For the first time, the elementary particle has been seen producing two bottom quarks

visualization of Higgs boson decaying into two bottom quarks

BOTTOM LINE  Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered evidence for the Higgs boson decaying into two bottom quarks (represented by the blue cones in these visualizations of data from one such event recorded from the ATLAS detector).

ATLAS/CERN

The Higgs boson has been spotted bottoming out — but that’s a good thing.