The Higgs boson was discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012. Experimental measurements determined its mass to be approximately 125 GeV/c². Of the given options, 100 GeV is the closest value.
The rest mass of Higgs boson is estimated to be close to
Asked in UPSC CDS 1 2024 · Topic: Nuclear Physics (Elementary particles: classification (leptons, hadrons, quarks), fundamental interactions (strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravitational).)
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