How to Use Higgs boson in a Sentence

Higgs boson

noun
  • Of course the Higgs boson is real.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Cesarotti was a high school junior when the Higgs boson was discovered.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
  • It was used to discover the Higgs boson, but further research may require something larger still.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Courts dismissed the suits, and the LHC went on to discover the Higgs boson instead of ending the world.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At issue is the nature of a mysterious energetic particle, a kind of magical Higgs boson called Dust.
    — Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Changes after the upgrade To produce a large number of Higgs bosons, researchers need to produce a larger number of collisions in the LHC.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • To study fundamental particles like the Higgs boson, physicists collide particles at nearly the speed of light in the Large Hadron Collider.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The Higgs boson in particle physics, or that in superconductivity, which allows electricity to flow through a material with no resistance.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
  • This represents a significant increase compared to the roughly 55 million Higgs bosons produced since the start of the original LHC.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That giant jump in luminosity will give researchers unprecedented access to rare interactions, subtle effects, and deeper insights into the Higgs boson.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In 2012, the laboratory found the Higgs boson, or the God particle, which helped scientists understand how particles acquire mass.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • Then there’s the inexplicably enormous disparity between the Higgs boson’s mass (which sets the physical scale of atoms) and the far higher mass-energy scale associated with quantum gravity, known as the Planck scale.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In 2012, two teams at the LHC discovered the elusive Higgs boson, the particle whose existence confirmed 50-year-old theories about the origins of mass.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The Large Hadron Collider, recently upgraded, didn’t just find the Higgs boson, but measured its properties, as well as the properties of many fundamental particles, more exquisitely than ever before.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The theory of electroweak unification was vindicated with the subsequent discovery of the massive W-and-Z bosons, and later, the entire mechanism was validated with the discovery of the Higgs boson.
    — Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Dark matter candidates, like weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), might connect to light via intermediate particles such as the top quark and Higgs boson.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to more data, scientists are hopeful that the HL-LHC, when ready in 2030, will be able to produce two Higgs bosons simultaneously and even observe them interacting.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • Both chips are designed for the LHC’s ATLAS detector, which investigates a wide range of physics phenomena, from the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, there are eight massless gluons (mediating the strong nuclear force), one massless photon (mediating the electromagnetic force), and three very massive W-and-Z bosons (mediating the weak nuclear force), plus the Higgs boson to complete the Standard Model.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025

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