26 Facts About Higgs boson

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Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory.

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Higgs boson field is a scalar field, with two neutral and two electrically charged components that form a complex doublet of the weak isospin SU symmetry.

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Unlike all other known fields such as the electromagnetic field, the Higgs boson field is a scalar field, and has a non-zero average value in vacuum.

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Many decades, scientists had no way to determine whether the Higgs boson field existed, because the technology needed for its detection did not exist at that time.

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Existence of the Higgs boson field became the last unverified part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and for several decades was considered "the central problem in particle physics".

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Higgs boson field is a scalar field, with two neutral and two electrically charged components that form a complex doublet of the weak isospin SU symmetry.

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The importance of the Higgs boson is largely that it is able to be examined using existing knowledge and experimental technology, as a way to confirm and study the entire Higgs field theory.

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In Higgs boson-based theories, the property of "mass" is a manifestation of potential energy transferred to fundamental particles when they interact with the Higgs boson field, which had contained that mass in the form of energy.

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Some theories suggest that a fundamental scalar field might be responsible for this phenomenon; the Higgs boson field is such a field, and its existence has led to papers analysing whether it could be the inflaton responsible for this exponential expansion of the universe during the Big Bang.

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Higgs boson wrote a short, but important, response published in September 1964 to an objection by Gilbert, which showed that if calculating within the radiation gauge, Goldstone's theorem and Gilbert's objection would become inapplicable.

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Higgs boson later described Gilbert's objection as prompting his own paper.

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Occasionally, although rarely, a Higgs boson will be created fleetingly as part of the collision byproducts.

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Theory suggested if the Higgs boson existed, collisions at these energy levels should be able to reveal it.

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In simple terms, unlike all other known fields, the Higgs boson field requires less energy to have a non-zero value than a zero value, so it ends up having a non-zero value everywhere.

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In other models the Higgs boson scalar is a composite particle.

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For example, in technicolor the role of the Higgs boson field is played by strongly bound pairs of fermions called techniquarks.

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Mathematically, the Higgs boson field has imaginary mass and is therefore a tachyonic field.

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The Higgs boson is its own antiparticle, is CP-even, and has zero electric and colour charge.

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Since it interacts with all the massive elementary particles of the SM, the Higgs boson has many different processes through which it can decay.

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The first is that Higgs boson undertook a step which was either unique, clearer or more explicit in his paper in formally predicting and examining the particle.

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Higgs boson' paper provided an "especially sharp" statement of the challenge and its solution according to science historian David Kaiser.

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Higgs boson is often referred to as the "God particle" in popular media outside the scientific community.

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Lederman asks whether the Higgs boson was added just to perplex and confound those seeking knowledge of the universe, and whether physicists will be confounded by it as recounted in that story, or ultimately surmount the challenge and understand "how beautiful is the universe [God has] made".

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Higgs boson is essentially a ripple in a field said to have emerged at the birth of the universe and to span the cosmos to this day.

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Higgs boson drew attention to well-known effects in solid state physics where an electron's effective mass can be much greater than usual in the presence of a crystal lattice.

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Ground state of the Higgs boson field is degenerate with different ground states related to each other by a SU gauge transformation.

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