The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. It is named after physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964, along with five other physicists, proposed the Higgs mechanism to explain why some particles have mass. The existence of the Higgs boson explains how particles acquire mass through their interaction with the Higgs field.
Proposed in 1964 by Peter Higgs and others. Confirmed experimentally at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on July 4, 2012.
The discovery of the Higgs boson was a monumental achievement in physics, completing the Standard Model and leading to the Nobel Prize in Physics for Higgs and François Englert in 2013.