The particle formerly known as Higgs

摘要

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but does It matter what a subatomic particle Is called? Earlier this month, organisers of a physics meeting requested that the Higgs boson - the particle thought to endow others with mass - instead be referred to as either the BEH or scalar boson. The name change might seem esoteric, but it hints at a complex past - and trouble ahead over credit for the boson, if it is found.