The Scale of the Universe

Higgs Boson

1 × 10-18 m

The Higgs boson is an elementary particle associated with the Higgs field, which helps other particles acquire mass. Peter Higgs described the existence of this particle in 1964, and the Higgs boson was finally detected in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Higgs Boson