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Why is it called the Higgs particle?
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Higgs boson is named after the physicist Peter Higgs. The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that gives other particles their mass. The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, which is a 27 km ring shaped particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. The Higgs boson is the last piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.