What is god particle or Higgs Boson experiment? at LHC. Explained

The Higgs boson, or “God particle,” is believed to be the particle which gives mass to matter. One of the most mysterious and important properties is mass. Some particles, like protons and neutrons, have mass. Others, like photons, do not. God particle also known as Higgs boson is an elementary particle within the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs to a class of particles known as bosons.

More than 100 Indian scientists have been working at LHC. This happened just as 6,000 scientists were starting an experiment on LHC to the predictions of different theories of particle physics and high-energy physics, and particularly that of the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. The LHC is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics.

On 4 July 2012, the two main experiments at the LHC (ATLAS and CMS) both reported independently that they found a new particle with a mass of about 125 GeV/c2 (about 133 proton masses, on the order of 10-25 kg), which is "consistent with the Higgs boson".

"This is the most massive such particle that exists, if we confirm all of this - which I think we will.The results are preliminary but the five sigma signal at around 125 GeV we’re seeing is dramatic" says Joe Incandela, spokesman for the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Rolf Heuer, director of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. near the border with France, made the announcement early Wednesday, saying that researchers have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics (known as god particle).

There is an intrinsic Indian connection to what is happening at CERN - Satyendra Nath Bose.

It is Bose after whom the sub-atomic particle 'boson' is named.

Bose was born in Calcutta in 1894, and served as a lecturer at the universities of Dhaka and Calcutta.

At the age of 30, Bose was instrumental in a key statistical discovery, along with none other than Albert Einstein himself. He sent a paper to Einstein describing a statistical model that led to the discovery of what would later be called the Bose-Einstein condensate phenomenon. The paper described the two fundamental classes of sub-atomic particles -- bosons, named after Bose, and fermions, after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

While several Nobel prizes have been awarded to research related to the concepts of the boson, Bose himself was never honoured. In 1954, the Indian government conferred Bose with the Padma Vibhushan.