• Question: What properties have you found that the Higgs elementary particle has?

    Asked by Clownfish to Adrian on 7 Mar 2016.
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      Adrian Buzatu answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      The Higgs elementary particle has the same properties as the vacuum of cosmic space. All the quantum numbers are zero: electric charge, color charge, weak charge. Especially the spin is also zero. All the other bosons we know have a spin 1. This makes the Higgs boson really stand out. We also know it’s mass. Its as massive as a heavy ion. It has the mass of about 130 protons!

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