Higgs Boson-The God Particle

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Higgs Boson, one of the five Bosons, is the particle which gives mass to the matter. Without the Higgs Boson the universe would be massless and can't be in a stage as we see it now. If a particle is massless then it is impossible for it to stay at one place and it will always be zooming here and there at the speed of light. Without mass, the particles wouldn't hold together-and there would be no matter.

Higgs Boson creates a sticky energy field and whenever a fundamental particle like quark interacts with this field it slows down and becomes a candidate for coupling with another quark and thus creates atoms. The more the particle interacts with the field the more mass it gains. The Higgs particle brought the full stop in the early chaos of the universe after the inflation. And for all these properties it is known as "The God Particle".

The existence of the particle was theorized in 1964 by the British physicist Peter Higgs to explain why matter has mass. The Higgs is part of many theoretical equations underpinning scientists' understanding of how the world came into being. It is the most basic particle of the Standard Model and the scientists were worried that if it remains a hypothetical particle, the physics we know is wrong, all of it.

The Higgs boson is so elusive that only about one collision per trillion will produce one of them in the collider. But on March 14 2013 LHC replied.

"To me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," said Joe Incandela, a physicist who heads one of the two main teams at CERN, each involving about 3,000 scientists.

Since the Higgs field is scalar, the Higgs boson has no spin. The Higgs boson is also its own antiparticle and is CP-even, and has zero electric and colour charge. It's mass is between 115 and 180 GeV/c2 and has a mean life of about 1.6×10−22 s. One way that the Higgs can decay is by splitting into a fermion–antifermion pair.

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For our amateur scientists who are curious...
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Anti-Matter

In particle physics there are two types of substances one which is made up of particles known as matter and the other made up of anti-particles known as anti-matter.

Anti-particles are those which have same mass as that of the particles of the matter but different particle properties such as charge, etc... Electrons and Positrons, Neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are some examples.

Collision between particle and anti-particle lead to annihilation and release enormous amount of energy and particle and anti-particle again such as high energy photons, neutrinos, lower mass particle and anti-particle pairs.

The end result of annihilation is the release of energy equivalent to the total matter and anti-matter mass which is in accordance with the Einstein's famous Mass-Energy Equivalence relation, E=MC^2.

Like matter anti-particle combine to form anti-matter. For example, a positron (the anti-particle of the electron) and an anti-proton can form an anti-hydrogen atom. Physical principles indicate that complex anti-matter atomic nuclei are possible, as well as anti-atoms corresponding to the known chemical elements.

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