Written By: Astrophyzix Science Communication
Article type: Explainer, Peer-reviewed data, real science, Physics Explained
Introduction
The Higgs boson is one of the most important discoveries in modern physics and represents the experimental confirmation of a mechanism proposed in the 1960s to explain how fundamental particles acquire mass. Its detection in 2012 at CERN's Large Hadron Collider marked the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics, a framework describing the fundamental particles and forces that govern the universe.