After more than half a century and billions of dollars being spent in the quest, at last the Higgs boson a.k.a the "God particle" has been found.
Peter Higgs proposed the existance of the Higgs boson in the 1960's as a solution to the standard model of particle physics whereby in order for the model to work as described there had to exist a particle (the Higgs boson) which would be responsible for giving mass to all the other particles. According to this model, other particles do not inherently have mass of their own but rather acquire mass under the influence of the Higg's field exerted by the Higg's boson.
Peter Higgs proposed the existance of the Higgs boson in the 1960's as a solution to the standard model of particle physics whereby in order for the model to work as described there had to exist a particle (the Higgs boson) which would be responsible for giving mass to all the other particles. According to this model, other particles do not inherently have mass of their own but rather acquire mass under the influence of the Higg's field exerted by the Higg's boson.
The Higgs which was dubbed as " the most sought after particle in modern physics" was announced by scientists at CERN on July 4, 2012, whereby they stated that they have found a particle which behaved the way they expected a Higgs boson to behave. On further scrutiny, up to the date of writting this article the discovered particle has remained in consistence with the predicted Higgs boson,hence there is a very high degree of certainty that it is, indeed, the Higgs boson.
The large haedron collider (LHC) under the CERN was used to isolate the particle whereby beams of protons and ions were accelarated in a circular path to near the speed of light, these beams were then made to collide with each other and the resulting events recorded and analysed. A resulting massive 125Gev particle was comfirmed to be indeed the Higgs boson.
Some very useful links:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/large-hadron-collider.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
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The large haedron collider (LHC) under the CERN was used to isolate the particle whereby beams of protons and ions were accelarated in a circular path to near the speed of light, these beams were then made to collide with each other and the resulting events recorded and analysed. A resulting massive 125Gev particle was comfirmed to be indeed the Higgs boson.
Some very useful links:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/large-hadron-collider.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
Mganga,F.M (c) 2013
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