whereas photons did not interact at all, making them the fastest particles in the universe and also massless. Photons were like tiny marbles that never touched the Higgs field and hence never gained mass from it. On the other hand, W and Z bosons were heavier marbles...
Why is the Higgs boson so important? Why is the Higgs boson important? Is the Higgs boson made of dark matter? Did the Higgs boson create the universe? How many Higgs bosons are there? Why is the Higgs boson important to particle physics? What are fermions and bosons? What are decuplet...
The Higgs boson is the last remaining particle of the Standard Model that has not been observed; all the other fermions and bosons have been proven to exist through experiment. If the LHC does focus enough energy to generate an observable Higgs boson with a mass over 114 GeV, the Standard ...
Indeed, the Higgs boson eluded detection through the construction and shutdown of two expensive high-energy particle colliders built partially for the purpose of detecting it. In these colliders, particles are accelerated through a tunnel and then smashed together, producing an excess of energy that...
The article discusses research on the Higgs boson by physicist Yann Mambrini and team that illustrates that bosons cannot decay into weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) of dark matter because WIMPs are too heavy, noting that Higgs bosons should then be visible to the Large Hadron Collider...
The Higgs boson gets its mass just like other particles—from its own interactions with the Higgs field. There may be more than one Higgs boson. One theoretical model of new physics predicts five Higgs bosons. While the Higgs boson gives mass to the quarks that make up a proton, it is ...
In particle physics, particles are classified into two types based on the values of their spin. These two types are called fermions and bosons respectively. Examples of fermions are electrons, protons, neutrons, etc. Examples of bosons are photons, gluons, Higgs bosons, e...
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Is it a standard-model Higgs If we accept that what we have snared is the Higgs boson, then there is no room for manoeuvre: the standard model predicts everything else about it. While we are pretty sure the new particle decays into force-carrying bosons as a Higgs should, we are less...
Simulation showing the production of the Higgs boson in the collision of two protons at the Large Hadron Collider. The Higgs boson quickly decays into four muons, which are a type of heavy electron that is not absorbed by the detector. The tracks of the muons are shown in yellow.(Image cr...