Question
In the “golden channel,” this particle decays into two Z bosons, which each decay into two leptons. The fact that the mass of this particle is significantly lower than the Planck (“plonk”) mass is one manifestation of the hierarchy problem. This particle’s potential takes on a Mexican hat shape, a consequence of its potential’s vacuum expectation value being nonzero. After electroweak symmetry breaking, this particle’s namesake field couples to the W and Z bosons to give them mass. The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN discovered this particle in 2012. For 10 points, name this particle, the last predicted by the Standard Model to be discovered, named for a British physicist. ■END■
ANSWER: Higgs boson
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Geoffrey Wu (UG) | Columbia A | NYU B | 68 | 10 |
Udbhav Bodapati (DII) | University of Delaware A | Maryland | 72 | 10 |
Edward Zhou (DII) | NYU A | Rowan | 76 | 10 |
Avyaya Singh (DII) | Swarthmore A | Princeton | 88 | 10 |
Rio | NYU C | Delaware B | 109 | 10 |
Will Hollister (DII) | Lehigh | Penn | 110 | 10 |