Higgs boson
nounEtymology
From Higgs + boson; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with proposing what is now called the Higgs mechanism. Korean-American theoretical physicist Benjamin W. Lee is generally credited with having coined the term.
Definitions
An elementary particle in the Standard Model, namely a boson with zero spin, that gives…
An elementary particle in the Standard Model, namely a boson with zero spin, that gives mass to other particles.
- The existence of a Higgs boson would be the simplest solution to the problem of electroweak symmetry breaking.
- In the higher Higgs boson mass domain, the Higgs boson decays dominantly to a pair of b-quarks.
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