From Bose’s Boson to The Higgs

Abstract

On July the 4th, 2012, all over the world, people in general, and the scientific communities in particular, were extremely delighted by an extraordinary broadcast made by Joe Incandella and Fabiola Gianotti, the heads of the experiments CMS and ATLAS located in the opposite sides of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). They announced that they have been almost certain to have detected a particle identified to be the Higgs boson from its observed properties, specially its mass, as predicted by the theory. The main procedure basically consisted of two streams of protons travelling in opposite directions, with a tremendous speed nearing that of light, accelerated through a circular tunnel, 27km in circumference coming to collide headon. The project has been carried out under the particle physics laboratory at CERN near Geneva. As an introduction to the understanding of the Higgs particle, a review of the nature of the particle boson originally conceptualized by the Indian physicist. Prof. Satyendranath Bose and further elaborated by Prof Einstein would be relevant.