Higgs field prediction lands Nobel Prize in physics
By Andrew Grant and Gabriel Popkin
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BIG BANG This CMS collision event shows characteristics expected from the decay of the standard model Higgs boson to a pair of photons (dashed yellow lines and green towers). The prediction of the Higgs particle won scientists the Nobel Prize in physics.
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