CERN- Missing Higgs
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 Peter Higgs | (wikipedia.com) Born in England in 1929, A british physicist, he is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This is called the Higgs Mechanism |
| Robert Brout | (wikipedia.com) A belgian theoretical physicists in particle physics. In collaboration with Francois Englert, discovered how mass can be generated for gauge particles in the presence of a local abelian and non-abelian gauge symmetry. |
| Francois Englert | (quizlet.com) A Belgian theoretical physicist who worked with Brout and Higgs. He developed theories of the Higgs boson and fields |
| Conundrum | (dictionary.com) a puzzling question or problem |
| Higgs Field | (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_field) In particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is a theoretical framework which explains how the masses of the W and Z bosons arise through spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. |
| Higgs Boson | (public.web.cern.ch) A particle predicted by theory. It is linked with the mechanism by which physicists think particles acquire mass. |
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