Particle physics
The Higgs Boson
The particle associated with the Higgs field, which gives many elementary particles their mass. Predicted in the 1960s and discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, it completed the Standard Model; the origin of mass it explains is fundamental to why matter — and therefore stars and galaxies — exists as it does.
Highlights
- ›Gives particles their mass — found at the LHC in 2012
Related physics & astronomy
Across fundamental physics
Knowledge connections
- Associated withThe Fundamental Forces
- Associated withThe Standard Model (overview)
- Associated withElementary Particles
- Associated withThe Fundamental Forces
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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