HIGGS BOSON


Meaning of HIGGS BOSON in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈhigz- ]

noun

Etymology: Peter W. Higgs b 1929 British physicist

Date: 1974

: a hypothetical elementary particle that has zero spin and large mass and that is required by some gauge theories to account for the masses of other elementary particles

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