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202 CHAPTER 45. LARGE HADRON COLLIDER PHYSICS<br />

• One <strong>of</strong> the major goals <strong>of</strong> the collider is to find the elusive Higgs boson:<br />

the particle that physicists invoke to explain why particles like protons,<br />

neutrons <strong>and</strong> electrons have mass.<br />

The Higgs boson is a crucial missing part <strong>of</strong> the St<strong>and</strong>ard Mode <strong>of</strong> sub-atomic<br />

physics developed by Gell-Mann with the basic particles <strong>of</strong> atom physics <strong>of</strong><br />

electrons, protons <strong>and</strong> neutrons made up by smaller particles named quarks.<br />

Figure 45.1: Inside the Large Hadron Collider.

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