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Meanings of higgs particle in English

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A hypothetical elementary particle that would explain the origin of mass in the massive elementary particles.

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Examples for "god particle"
Examples for "god particle"
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This week has been dubbed the most exciting in the history of physics - and it's all thanks to the so called god particle.
Radio NZ
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GENEVA (Reuters) - It has been fancifully dubbed the angel of creation and, to the particular scorn of physicists, the god particle.
Reuters
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Feon Federman of Fermilab calls the Higgs the " God particle."
Skeptics and true believers: the exhilarating connection between...
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Because of the great fundamental importance of the Higgs boson it has been nicknamed the God Particle.
The Irish Times
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He regrets that the particle he identified in 1964 became known as the " God particle".
The Guardian
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Prepare the fireworks: The discovery of the Higgs boson is finally here.
Wired
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The story progresses strictly chronologically from Babylonian stargazers to the Higgs boson.
The Irish Times
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Evidence for the Higgs boson has risen sharply in the past seven months.
The Guardian
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The Higgs boson is the last new particle predicted by the Standard Model.
The Guardian
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The Standard Model Higgs boson is the most simple proposed version of particle.
The Guardian
Usage of higgs particle in English
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The results do not completely rule out a more exotic Higgs particle, though.
The Guardian
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They now want to make more Higgs particles and measure their properties accurately.
The Guardian
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The Higgs particle, although crucial for understanding how the universe was formed, remains theoretical.
Radio NZ
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Of all the trillions of collisions, very few are just right for revealing the Higgs particle.
Reuters
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The Higgs particle is the signature of the field - an eyelash of one of the photographers.
Reuters
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The Higgs particle is highly unstable and disintegrates into other subatomic particles as soon as it is created.
The Guardian
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For all the billions of collisions, very few of them are just right for revealing the Higgs particle.
Reuters
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That would be a revolution on the scale of the Higgs , arguably even more important than the Higgs particle.
The Guardian
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The recent discovery of what looks like the Higgs particle is a triumph of human endeavor and international collaboration.
Wired
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The discovery of the Higgs particle ranks as one of the most important scientific advances of the past 100 years.
The Guardian
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The window may leave an opportunity for the Tevatron to help verify, or trounce, the existence of the Higgs particle.
Wired
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The Higgs particle is postulated by physicists as part of the mechanism by which all other fundamental particles acquire mass.
The Guardian
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The discovery of more than one kind of Higgs particle would open the door to an entirely new realm of physics.
The Guardian
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The Higgs particle is a genuinely transformational discovery; it is not just another particle, it is a completely new kind of particle.
The Guardian
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That leaves a mass range of 114GeV to 141GeV where the Higgs particle might still be found.
The Guardian
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However, neither team updated their results for Higgs particles disintegrating into gamma particles, which may still harbour signs of an unusual Higgs at work.
The Guardian