- 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.
- Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles.
- 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.