Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science

Particle Physics and Higgs Boson

Particle physics is a division of physics that studies the nature of the particles that establish matter and radiation. Although the word atom can refer to various types of very small objects, particle physics usually investigates the irreducibly smallest obvious particles and the important interactions necessary to clarify their behaviour.

The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory.