Physics PYQ 281 of 288 · Modern Physics

'God particle' is :

  1. ANeutrino
  2. BHiggs Boson
  3. CMeson
  4. DPositron
  5. ENone of the above/More than one of the above

60th–62nd BPSC Prelims 2016

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Correct answer: (b) Higgs Boson

Explanation

The "God particle" is the Higgs boson, the particle linked to the field that gives other particles their mass.

It was predicted in 1964 and found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012; Peter Higgs and François Englert won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. "Boson" honours S. N. Bose.

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