CMS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva Photo: PHOTOLIBRARY
Higgs boson: Q&A
More than 50 years ago Peter Higgs and five other theoretical physicists proposed that an invisible field lying across the Universe gives particles their mass, allowing them to clump together to form stars and planets.By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent
The Telegraph, UK
04 Jul 2012
What is the Higgs boson and the Higgs field?The Higgs field has been described as a kind of cosmic "treacle" spread through the universe.
According to Prof Higgs's 1964 theory, the field interacts with the tiny particles that make up atoms, and weighs them down so that they do not simply whizz around space at the speed of light.
But in the half-century following the theory, produced independently by the six scientists within a few months of each other, nobody has been able to prove that the Higgs Field really exists.
Prof Higgs predicted that the field would have a signature particle, a massive boson. Finding it would point towards the existence of the field.
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