Higgs boson

The Higgs boson is a particle that gives mass to other particles. It is nicknamed by the popular press as the "God Particle."

One half is named after Satyenda Nath Bose, who was not only a contemporary of Albert Einstein, but was also his collaborator in developing Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate.

The other half was named after Peter Higgs, one of six physicists who, in 1964, proposed the mechanism that suggested the particle.

When Peter Higgs submitted ahis paper outlining the Higgs mechanism and predicting the Higgs boson, The journal, Physics Letters, rejected it as irrelevant to physics. Higgs revised the paper and submitted it to another journal, Physical Review Letters, which published it a few months later.

Nobel Prize Laureate Peter Higgs in Stockholm, December 2013. By Bengt Nyman - Flickr: IMG_

On December 10, 2013 Peter Higgs and François Englert, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work and prediction (Englert's co-researcher Robert Brout had died in 2011 and the Nobel Prize is not ordinarily given posthumously).

On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson. The announcement was made after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. which lies in a 17 mile tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland.

Tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research. By Julian Herzog 

By March 2013, the particle had been proven to behave, interact and decay in many of the ways predicted by the Standard Model. The teams announced that they now believed the new particle was a Higgs boson.

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