Higgs boson

plural Higgs bosons

1. particlenatural sciencesAn elementary particle in the Standard Model, namely a boson with zero spin, that gives mass to other particles.

   In the higher Higgs boson mass domain, the Higgs boson decays dominantly to a pair of b-quarks.

   2011, Christopher G. Tully, Elementary Particle Physics in a Nutshell, page 255

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   The existence of a Higgs boson would be the simplest solution to the problem of electroweak symmetry breaking.

   1987, Robert N. Cahn, “The Search for a Heavy Higgs Boson at the SSC”, in Orrin Fackler, J. Thanh Vân Trân, editors, New and Exotic Phenomena: Proceedings of the Seventh Moriond Workshop, page 468

   We also know other things about the Higgs boson. If it were much more massive, a problem would occur. Since Higgs bosons interact with particles with a large mass, Higgs bosons would also interact with themselves (as they have mass too). This “self interaction” puts an upper limit on the mass of the Higgs boson as less than about 500-1000 GeV.

   2004, Don Lincoln, Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos, page 239

   Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson Blues? / I'm going down to Geneva, baby / Gonna teach it to you

   2013, “Higgs Boson Blues”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

   Synonyms: God particle, Higgs particle, Higgson, higgson