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-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.
-It is named after physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964, along with five other scientists, proposed the mechanism to explain why particles have mass, this Higgs mechanism also implies the existence of a new boson.

-Its existence was confirmed in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations based on collisions in the LHC at CERN.