Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hypothetical, massive subatomic particle predicted by the standard model theory to explain discrepancies in elementary particle mass.
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- noun physics A
hypothetical elementary particle predicted by theStandard Model ; aboson withzero spin , it is thought to givemass to otherparticles .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the fact that it is the fundamental particle of the Higgs field.]
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From Higgs ("a surname") + boson; after the British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with proposing what is now called the Higgs mechanism.
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Examples
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I know that it is designed to discover whether the Higgs boson exists, but what exactly is the Higgs boson and why do we need to know about it?
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I know that it is designed to discover whether the Higgs boson exists, but what exactly is the Higgs boson and why do we need to know about it?
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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