an elementary particle with zero spin and mass greater than zero, predicted to exist by electroweak theory and other gauge theories, discovered in 2012
Also called: (informal) God particle
Word origin
C20: named after Peter Higgs (born 1929), British theoretical physicist
Higgs boson in American English
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Particle Physics
a hypothetical massive boson that binds to other subatomic particles, giving them mass
: also Higgs particle
Word origin
after P. W. Higgs (1929- ), Brit physicist
Examples of 'Higgs boson' in a sentence
Higgs boson
The idea made her dizzy, so she jumped into a complicated explanation of the Higgs boson that soon left him behind.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE (1997)