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Higgs boson

The Higgs boson is a massive spin-0 elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics that plays a key role in explaining the mass of other elementary particles. Its experimental discovery was announced in a seminar July 4, 2012.^[1]^[2] This particle was first proposed by Professor Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University in 1964 as a means to explain the origin of the masses of the elementary particles by the introduction of an fundamental scalar field. This gives all the fundamental particles mass via a process of spontaneous symmetry breaking called the Higgs Mechanism. The Higgs boson was popularised as the "God particle" by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman in his 1993 popular science book The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What is the Question? co-written with science writer Dick Teresi.^[3]^[4]

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↑ Announced at a CERN seminar in Geneva. See Thomas Mulier and Jason Gale. Higgs boson discovery brings scientists close to understanding mass. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2012-07-05. “The data presented yesterday are the latest from the $10.5 billion Large Hadron Collider, a 27-kilometer (17-mile) circumference particle accelerator buried on the border of France and Switzerland. CERN has 10,000 scientists working on the project...” ↑ CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson. CERN press office (4 July 2012). Retrieved on 2012-07-05. ↑ Leon M. Lederman and R Teresi (1993) The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What is the Question? Dell. ISBN 0-385-31211-3 ↑ Fermilab 'closing in' on the God particle New Scientist

[Higgs-1] Announced at a CERN seminar in Geneva. See Thomas Mulier and Jason Gale. Higgs boson discovery brings scientists close to understanding mass. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2012-07-05. “The data presented yesterday are the latest from the $10.5 billion Large Hadron Collider, a 27-kilometer (17-mile) circumference particle accelerator buried on the border of France and Switzerland. CERN has 10,000 scientists working on the project...”

[CERN-2] CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson. CERN press office (4 July 2012). Retrieved on 2012-07-05.

[3] Leon M. Lederman and R Teresi (1993) The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What is the Question? Dell. ISBN 0-385-31211-3

[4] Fermilab 'closing in' on the God particle New Scientist

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