How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-higgs-field-actually-gives-mass-to-elementary-particles-20240903/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-higgs-field-actually-gives-mass-to-elementary-particles-20240903/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:53:06 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=140239 The post How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 confirmed what we particle physicists had long suspected: that there is a field permeating the cosmos that generates the masses of elementary particles. Unfortunately, physicists have found it challenging to explain to everyone else how this so-called Higgs field accomplishes its mighty task. A common approach has been to tell a...

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