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Large Hadron Collider was in news recently for doing some scientific research to prove the presence of an elementary particle. The scientist who predicted this particle in 1964 has been awarded Nobel Prize in 2013. What is this discovery ?<\/p>\n

[amp_mcq option1=”Particles known as quarks having mass” option2=”Origin of Universe timings” option3=”Bigg’s Bosons or God Particles explaining why fundamental particles have mass” option4=”None of the above” correct=”option3″]<\/p>\n

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\nThe question describes the search and discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which was heavily in the news, leading to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Fran\u00e7ois Englert and Peter Higgs who had theorized its existence in 1964.
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\nThe Higgs boson is an elementary particle associated with the Higgs field. This field is thought to be present throughout the universe, and interactions with it give other fundamental particles (like quarks and leptons) their mass. It is often popularly referred to as the “God particle”.
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\n– Quarks are fundamental particles that are components of protons and neutrons; they do have mass, but the Higgs mechanism explains *why* they have mass, not just that they do.
\n– The origin of the universe timings is related to cosmology and the Big Bang theory, not the Higgs boson discovery.
\n– The LHC is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to collide beams of protons or heavy ions at high energies to study fundamental particles and forces.
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Large Hadron Collider was in news recently for doing some scientific research to prove the presence of an elementary particle. The scientist who predicted this particle in 1964 has been awarded Nobel Prize in 2013. What is this discovery ? [amp_mcq option1=”Particles known as quarks having mass” option2=”Origin of Universe timings” option3=”Bigg’s Bosons or God … <\/p>\n

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