Question

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, (10[1])W-minus, and Z-naught. François Englert and this physicist shared the 2013 Nobel Prize upon the discovery of this physicist’s (10[1])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]
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Aryan PathakLake HighlandMaggie Walker C6110
Ibrahim MohammadChattahoochee ADunbar8010

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