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    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 became one...
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    The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation...
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    physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all...
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    Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs, and Robert Brout), the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 (with Brout and Higgs) and the High Energy and Particle...
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  • Look up higgs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Higgs may refer to: Higgs boson, an elementary particle Higgs factory, a proposed particle accelerator...
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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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  • television producer (BBC Television). Peter Higgs, 94, British theoretical physicist, discoverer of the Higgs boson, Nobel Prize laureate (2013). 9 April...
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    now 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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  • Yang–Mills–Higgs equations are a set of non-linear partial differential equations for a Yang–Mills field, given by a connection, and a Higgs field, given...
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  • consists of vocalist Taylor Barber, bassist Christian Nowatzki, guitarists Peter Higgs and Jacob Gordon, and drummer Alex Vavra. Left to Suffer released their...
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  • mathematics, a Higgs bundle is a pair ( E , φ ) {\displaystyle (E,\varphi )} consisting of a holomorphic vector bundle E and a Higgs field φ {\displaystyle...
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    Abdus Salam incorporated the Higgs mechanism into Glashow's electroweak interaction, giving it its modern form. The Higgs mechanism is believed to give...
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    quantum mechanics Max Born, theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, chemist Sir Fraser Stoddart, immunologist Peter C. Doherty, economist Sir James Mirrlees, discoverer...
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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...
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    leadership D3: Private sector leadership Examples of current fellows include Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Previous fellows have included Melvin Calvin...
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    Rees and Higgs, in particular, have both rejected Dawkins's confrontational stance toward religion as narrow and "embarrassing", with Higgs going as far...
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  • work has suffered due to publication pressures. Physicist Peter Higgs, namesake of the Higgs boson, was quoted in 2013 as saying that academic expectations...
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  • nuclear fusion and Nobel laureate), Peter Higgs (proposer of the Higgs mechanism, which predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, and Nobel laureate), A....
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    of this confirmation, the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Peter Higgs and François Englert. Various known composite particles are scalar bosons...
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    Bristol include: Billy Hughes: 20 May 1916. Kipchoge Keino: 5 July 2012. Peter Higgs: 4 July 2013. Sir David Attenborough: 17 December 2013. The Rifles: 2007...
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    Pendry H. G. Wells Geoffrey Wilkinson Dame Sally Davies Sir Brian May CBE Peter Higgs Robert Winston, Baron Winston Sir Martin Hairer Nobel laureates: (medicine)...
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  • François Englert; Peter Higgs; and Gerald Guralnik, C. Richard Hagen, and Tom Kibble (GHK). They are credited with the theory of the Higgs mechanism and the...
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    laureates: Paul Dirac, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, and Peter Higgs, who received the same award in 2013. Cotham School was established in...
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  • Michael Higgs (born 14 February 1962) is an English actor best known for prominent roles in two long-running television series: Eddie Santini in ITV1's...
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  • Benjamin Higgs (3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson...
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  • Englert Gerald Guralnik Higgs mechanism Large Hadron Collider Peter Higgs Robert Brout Tom Kibble Copenhagen interpretation Higgs, Peter (1964). "Broken Symmetries...
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    United Kingdom 14 June 2024 73 64 (-) Vacant following the death of Peter Higgs, on 8 April 2024 65 (-) Vacant following the death of The Lord Field...
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    awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theoretical description of the Higgs mechanism in the year after the Higgs boson was found by CERN experiments...
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    studied since seminal articles of Charles Fefferman, Robert Strichartz, and Peter Tomas in the 1970s. Here one studies the operation which restricts input...
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    the cosmos began, but did not share the 2013 Physics Prize awarded to Peter Higgs and François Englert, who had also published papers in 1964 concerning...
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