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Higgs boson

Idea

The Higgs particle is a boson hypothesized to be the quantum of the Higgs field. See there for more.

Related concepts

• Higgs mechanism, electroweak symmetry breaking

field (physics)

standard model of particle physics

force field (physics) gauge bosons

• photon - electromagnetic field (abelian Yang-Mills field)

• W, Z, B-boson - electroweak field (Yang-Mills field)

• gluon - strong nuclear force (Yang-Mills field)

• graviton - field of gravity

scalar bosons

• Higgs boson, inflaton (scalar field)

matter field fermions (spinors)

• electron

• quark

• neutrino

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartner gauge field fermions

fermions:

• gravitino - field of supergravity

• gaugino - super Yang-Mills field

bosons:

• gluino

Exotica

• axion, dilaton

• monopole