He predicted the existence of a field made up of Higgs
bosons, where particles gain mass as they move through the field.
Lagrangian of the gauge
bosons in the B-L model is generally given by
But according to theory, Higgs
bosons should decay over half of the time into bottom quarks, the second-heaviest type of quark.
It is logically lawful to guess that, in analogy to the second generation, this mass consists as well of three
bosons (the average mass of each is 1 TeV).
Fabiola Gianotti led one of two teams that discovered the Higgs
boson, the most exciting feat of modern physics.
Two years ago the LHC team at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, astounded the world with the discovery of the Higgs
boson, an elementary particle that gives other particles mass.
The Higgs
Boson was named after Professor Peter Higgs, emeritus professor at Edinburgh University.
Professor Vincenzo Chiochia from the University of Zurich's Physics Institute said that they now know that the Higgs particle can decay into both
bosons and fermions, which means they can exclude certain theories predicting that the Higgs particle does not couple to fermions.
His theory - developed with Francois Englert, of Belgium, who was jointly awarded the prize - was con-firmed last year by the discovery of the so-called Higgs
boson at a laboratory in Geneva.
Supersymmetry postulates a fundamental relationship between the classes of particles known as fermions and
bosons. Fermions are particles such as quarks and electrons, which make up what we normally think of as matter.