Abstract :
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Standard model of particle physics describes
that the matter is made up of quarks and leptons. The
basic interacting forces between these Fermions are
Electromagnetic force, weak force and strong nuclear
force. These forces are mediated by photon, W and Z
bosons and gluons. All the above mentioned particles
predicted by standard model of particle physics were
observed experimentally except the one boson, which
plays a vital role in acquiring the mass to these above
mentioned constituent particles. This particle was first
proposed in the 1960s by the English physicist Peter
Higgs. After decades of careful experiment, physicists
found the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic
particle so important to the understanding of space, time
and matter that the physicist Leon Lederman nicknamed
it “The God Particle”.
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