| Syllabus: GS-III, Subject: Science and technology, Topic: Space Technology, Issue: Astronomical concepts |
Context: Physicist Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of Higgs boson particle, passed away.
Higgs boson:
- Discovered in 2012, imparts mass to other particles and completed the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
- Its discovery at the Large Hadron Collider validated decades of theoretical work.
- Higgs boson’s significance lies in its role as a carrier of the Higgs field, which interacts with particles to give them mass.
- Particles like photons, which do not interact with the Higgs field, are massless.
- Its discovery was a major achievement for the scientific community and validated the Standard Model’s predictions.
