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  1. 12/10/2020

    Astronomical Thoughts

    The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field,[8][9] one of the fields in particle physics theory.[9] It is named after physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964, along with five other scientists, proposed the Higgs mechanism to explain why some particles have mass. (Particles acquire mass in several ways, but a full explanation for all particles had been extremely difficult). This mechanism required that a spinless particle known as a boson should exist, with properties as described by the Highs Mechanism theory. This particle was called the Higgs boson. A subatomic particle with the expected properties was discovered around 40 years later in 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations (experimental teams), based on collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and the new particle was subsequently confirmed to match the expected properties of a Higgs boson over the following years. On 10 December 2013, two of the physicists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theoretical predictions. Although Higgs's name has come to be associated with this theory (the Higgs mechanism), several researchers between about 1960 and 1972 independently developed different parts of it. In mainstream media the Higgs boson has often been called the "God particle", from a 1993 book on the topic,[10] although the nickname is strongly disliked by many physicists, including Higgs himself, who regard it as sensationalism.[11][12]

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