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    excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin...
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    the Higgs boson was a 40-year effort by physicists to prove the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson, first theorised in the 1960s. The Higgs boson...
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    Certain elementary bosons (e.g. gluons) act as force carriers, which give rise to forces between other particles, while one (the Higgs boson) contributes to...
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    general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This Higgs mechanism predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which...
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    Javier Santaolalla (category University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria alumni)
    Nuclear Research, where he was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson through the Large Hadron Collider from CMS Experiment. Javier Santaolalla...
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    fundamental scalar boson in the Standard Model of particle physics is the Higgs boson, the existence of which was confirmed on 14 March 2013 at the Large Hadron...
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    the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one...
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    particle, the Higgs boson, which has since been found at the Large Hadron Collider. Of the four components of a Goldstone boson created by the Higgs field, three...
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    False vacuum (redirect from Higgs vacuum)
    called A d S {\displaystyle AdS} (Anti-de Sitter space). The diagrams show the uncertainty ranges of Higgs boson and top quark masses as oval-shaped lines...
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    of the Higgs field whose interactions are carried by four massless gauge bosons – each similar to the photon – forming a complex scalar Higgs field doublet...
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  • particle and condensed matter physics, Goldstone bosons or Nambu–Goldstone bosons (NGBs) are bosons that appear necessarily in models exhibiting spontaneous...
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    observed elementary particles. It derives its mass from its coupling to the Higgs boson. This coupling yt is very close to unity; in the Standard Model of particle...
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    electroweak symmetry SU(2) × U(1)Y to U(1)em, effected by the Higgs mechanism (see also Higgs boson), an elaborate quantum-field-theoretic phenomenon that "spontaneously"...
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    theory: Introduction to gauge theory Generation Higgs mechanism: Higgs boson, Alternatives to the Standard Higgs Model Lagrangian Open questions: CP violation...
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    known as the Higgs field, and that the interactions occur via particles that are widely known as Higgs bosons. As yet, these Higgs bosons had not been...
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    the Higgs boson was announced to have been observed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Peter Higgs who first posited the existence of the Higgs boson was...
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    Higgs boson discovery at the CERN LHC in 2012, the original models are largely ruled out. Nonetheless, it remains a possibility that the Higgs boson is...
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    Higgs boson. In 1994, Rodrigo became a professor of atomic physics at the University of Cantabria. Rodrigo also worked at the Instituto de Física de Cantabria [es]...
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    The MSSM Higgs mass is a prediction of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The mass of the lightest Higgs boson is set by the Higgs quartic coupling...
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    observation of the Higgs boson. On 4 July 2012 Gianotti announced the discovery of the particle. Until the observation, the Higgs boson was a purely theoretical...
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    beam, about four times the previous world record. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC was announced in 2012. Between 2013 and 2015, the LHC was...
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  • Exotic star (redirect from Boson star)
    as studying the Higgs boson, quark–gluon plasma and evidence related to physics beyond the Standard Model.[clarification needed] A boson star is a hypothetical...
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  • short-range weak interaction, and the Higgs boson. In the Higgs mechanism, the Higgs field manifests Higgs bosons that interact with some quantum particles...
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    created in particle accelerator collisions. Several bosons, including the W and Z bosons and the Higgs boson, can decay into charm quarks. All charm quarks...
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  • the Standard Model, there are also bosons, including the photons and gluons; W+, W−, and Z bosons; and the Higgs boson; and an open space left for the graviton...
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    Fermi ball Gauge gravitation theory Goldstone boson Grand unified theory Higgs mechanism Higgs boson Higgs field (classical) Irreversibility Magnetic catalysis...
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    the fundamental set of particles – the leptons, quarks, gauge bosons and the Higgs boson. The Standard Model is renormalizable and mathematically self-consistent...
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    Decay. These graphics refer to the X boson and Higgs boson families. Dimension 6 proton decay mediated by the X boson   ( 3 , 2 ) − 5 6   {\displaystyle...
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    so-called "Higgs-strahlung" process in which a Higgs boson is radiated from a Z-boson (this proved to be the best way to search for the Higgs boson at the...
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  • the Higgs mass squared in the Standard Model, the quantum mechanical interactions of the Higgs boson causes a large renormalization of the Higgs mass...
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