Higgs boson
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"This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle. Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one..."--The God Particle (1993) by Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi |
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The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics.
Both the field and the boson are named after physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964, along with five other scientists in three teams, proposed the Higgs mechanism, a way for some particles to acquire mass.
See also
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- Boson
- Higgs boson in fiction
- Higgs mechanism
- List of particles
- Quantum triviality
- Yukawa interaction
- ZZ diboson
