Higgs boson
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Higgs boson
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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.
noun Higgs bosons
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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.
Similar: God particle, Higgs particle, Higgson, higgson
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noun elementary particle
| Español | bosón de Higgs |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | ヒッグス粒子 Higgusu ryūshi |
| 中文 | 希格斯玻色子 Xīgésī bōsèzi |
| Français | boson de Higgs |
| Deutsch | Higgs-Boson, Higgs-Teilchen |
| Ελληνικά | μποζόνιο Χιγκς bozónio Chigks |
| Русский | бозо́н Хи́ггса bozón Xíggsa, хи́ггсовский бозо́н xíggsovskij bozón |
| العربية | بُوزُون هِيغْز bōzōn higz |
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