Most Expensive Particle !!

Game of Hide and Seek 3,000 one side and Higgs on other side.

The biggest hunt on the hidden particle came to an end on July 4; it was the Eureka moment for the team of scientists and engineers, who were investigating for the particle. Man who stated about the particle 48 years was on cloud nine ! because of this breakthrough discovery. Peter Higgs states “I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge”. 

Peter Higgs

Why Boson attracted so much attention of scientists (both experimental and theorists) all over the world??

Since from the dawn, man is eager to understand nature and his surroundings. His thirst for this knowledge took him high in the Cosmos. With the advancement in understanding and to explain the universe and the forces, a standard Model was presented which explain the basic building block of the universe and the forces acting in the universe. This model predicted the particles which all were discovered, but Higgs was the last missing piece of the standard model. Standard Model says that the universe is made up of 12 fundamental particles and 4 fundamental forces. One another particle was predicted by Higgs, Brout and Englert in 1964. It explains the most important property of all matter- mass, and was called the Higgs Bosons. Finding the Higgs Boson would validate the standard model of the physics.

What magic does Higgs do??

In 1964, Higgs Boson came into theoretical picture having responsibility of giving mass to other particles and without Higgs there would be no gravity and no universe, physicist say all elementary forms of matter would zoom  around at the speed of light, there would be neither atoms nor life. This theoretical concept is to be confirmed through experiment, which was carried in world biggest particle physics lab at CERN (European Center of Nuclear Research) back in 2008.

Why Higgs boson???

Collision inside LHC

Higgs Boson is supposed to have originated in a trillionth of second after big bang created the universe. Scientists tried to recreate the same conditions presumed to have existed there by making very high speed proton collisions. Where 2 proton beams collide at the rate of 40 million hits per second. Protons are accelerated at 99.9999999% of the speed of light. Quarks which are present inside the proton are held together by massive gluons collide and explode with enough energy to create the Higgs particle.

 This Higgs particle has the 100 to 200 times the mass of the proton, but its validity last less than a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second before going to decay in the spray of other particles. The evidence of Higgs comes out to be from telltale spirals and from streaks left in L.H.C detectors by the particles created. Tracking millions of collisions occurring in seconds, they identified never before seen particle. The Higgs comes out to be like DNA of physics as it filled the gap of standard model of the physics describing matter and fundamental forces of nature. The results presented were “five sigma” i.e. there were just a 0.00006% of a chance the two laboratories (ATLAS & CMS) at LHC found is a mathematical quirk.  With this breakthrough discovery, scientist can now peep into other areas of universe with more surety.

Is this a God particle that scientists were looking??

Leon Lederman

Higgs boson is wrongly coined as “God particle”, Nobel prize winner physicist Leon lederman refer the Higgs Boson as a “goddamm particle” but his editor did not allowed him and changed to “God Particle”.For scientists it is a “may be” moment in the discovery of Higgs Boson, they said that they have found the particle that fits the predicted Higgs Boson mass range but they have yet to completely identify its other properties. They have yet to explain the all correct observations, including the slightly higher than expected energy and absence of some other particles. For all particle purpose, it is Higgs Boson.

Higgs Boson is the last piece of Cake (physics).

Discovery of Higgs Boson would act like a nitro booster for the physics, this discovery has opened a new paragraph in the understanding the universe. The biggest achievement of this discovery is that it confirms the validity of Standard model of the universe. The other aspects of the sub-atomic physics and the universe are yet unexplained like dark matter (25% of the matter in the universe), dark energy which makes up the 70% matter in the universe, antimatter, supersymmetry (SUSY) etc. with this new member in the physics all physicists are set up for new voyage across Cosmos to understand this great Intelligent Design which has many secrets hidden in, to unveil them for better understanding, after all Human is born with the thirst, and this thirst doesn't need water but knowledge, which has no limits. But for now it’s the Eureka moment for physicists around the world.

Monis khan