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This physicist names a rotationally symmetric potential energy whose graph resembles a “Mexican hat” when it features a non-minimum metastable point at zero. That system named for this physicist induces spontaneous symmetry breaking in electroweak theory. A July 4th discovery by the ATLAS and CMS experiments corroborated theoretical work pioneered by this scientist. This physicist’s (*) “mechanism” generates mass for particles denoted W-plus, W-minus, and Z-naught. François Englert and this physicist shared the 2013 Nobel Prize upon the discovery of this physicist’s namesake particle at the Large Hadron Collider. For 10 points, identify this physicist who names the “God particle,” a boson discovered in 2012. ■END■
ANSWER: Peter Higgs [or Peter Ware Higgs; accept Higgs field or Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson]
<Lalit Maharjan, Science - Physics> ~24969~ <Editor: David Bass>
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Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Aryan Pathak | Lake Highland | Maggie Walker C | 61 | 10 |
Ibrahim Mohammad | Chattahoochee A | Dunbar | 80 | 10 |