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    Physicist Peter Higgs who theorized existence of Higgs Boson passes away

    Posted 11 Apr 2024

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    • Peter W. Higgs received Nobel Prize in Physics (2013) jointly with Francois Englert for theoretical discovery of mechanism influencing origin of subatomic particle mass.
    • He theorized the existence of Higgs Boson in 1964. It was finally discovered in 2012 at Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
      • LHC is world’s largest particle accelerator located European particle physics laboratory CERN, Switzerland.

     

    • Higgs Boson
      • Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles.
        • Particle’s mass depends upon their interaction with this Higgs field.
        • Photons do not interact with this field and are thus massless.
        • Particles like electrons and protons do interact and have masses
      • Higgs boson itself interacts with this field and thus has mass.
      • Concept of Higgs field and Higgs particle are fundamental to our current understanding of way nature works.

     

    • Other fundamental Particles
      • Fermions (12 in number)-They are building blocks of matter and are split into six quarks and six leptons.
      • Bosons are particles that carry energy and forces throughout universe.
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    • Higgs Boson
    • Fermions
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