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mcgrew [mcgrewbooks.com] writes:

MIT News reports [mit.edu] that the particle discovered in 2012 and thought to be the elusive Higgs Boson is indeed the elusive particle.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Physics, confirm that the bosons decay to fermions — a group of particles that includes all leptons and quarks — as predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.

"This is an enormous breakthrough," says Markus Klute, an assistant professor of physics at MIT and leader of the international effort. "Now we know that particles like electrons get their mass by coupling to the Higgs field, which is really exciting."

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