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Happy Higgs-versary 🎉 On 4th July, 14 years ago, the ATLAS Collaboration and CMS Collaboration announced the existence of a particle with characteristics consistent with those of the #HiggsBoson. With a mass of more than 120 times that of the proton, the Higgs boson is the second-heaviest particle known today. This large mass, combined with an extremely short lifetime means that the particle cannot be found in Nature – its existence can only be verified by producing it in the lab. This discovery led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their 1964 proposal of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism – a mechanism explaining how fundamental particles acquire mass. Read more on how the Higgs boson was discovered: https://lnkd.in/d8iHmE6M

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