Higgs boson
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The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin, even (positive) parity, no electric charge, and no colour charge that couples to mass. It is also very unstable, decaying into other particles almost immediately upon generation.
Nobel Prize Laureate Peter Higgs in Stockholm, December 2013
Photograph of light passing through a dispersive prism: the rainbow effect arises because photons are not all affected to the same degree by the dispersive material of the prism.
Image: AIP Sakurai best
Image: Higgs, Peter (1929) cropped
Compact Muon Solenoid
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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and France. The goal of the CMS experiment is to investigate a wide range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions, and particles that could make up dark matter.
View of the CMS endcap through the barrel sections. The ladder to the lower right gives an impression of scale.
Panorama of CMS detector, 100m below the ground.
Half of the Hadron Calorimeter