The Higgs boson is named for English physicist Peter Higgs. He is one of six physicists who, in 1964, developed the theory that suggested the existence of such a particle. Other physicists include Francois Englert, Robert Brout, Gerald Guralnik, Richard Hagen and Tom Kibble. All of them are credited with the theory of the Higgs mechanism.
The three papers written on this discovery by the six physicists were recognized as a milestone papers during Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration.
These six physicists were awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particles Physics for this work.
All Higgs field have characteristics field particles called Higgs bosons. The term ‘Higgs boson’ is typically reserved for the electro-weak Higgs, the particle of the Higgs field first used in 1967-68 by Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam to account for electro-weak symmetry-breaking.
The search for the Higgs boson is of the highest priority for experimental particle physics.
Something that looks very much like the electro-weak Higgs boson was discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on 4 July 2012.
Discovery of Higgs Boson
