How the boson got Higgs's name

摘要

To many, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is synonymous with Peter Higgs, the physicist after whom the particle accelerator's primary target - the Higgs boson - is named. In Massive, science journalist Ian Sample describes Higgs's work and the experimental search for this putative subatomic particle.rnThe LHC is the biggest experiment in physics. Located at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, it aims to recreate the conditions of the Universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. From this we hope to learn how matter was formed, and how the structures on which life depends emerged. Widespread coverage of this huge project has led many to believe that in finding the Higgs boson, as the book jacket states, we "will finally understand the origins of mass -the last building block of life itself".