About Higgs boson:

• It is the fundamental force-carrying particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. 
• It is one of the 17 elementary particles that make up the Standard Model of particle physics, which is scientists’ best theory about the behaviors of the universe’s most basic building blocks.
• Higgs boson plays such a fundamental role in subatomic physics that it is sometimes referred to as the “God particle.”
• It was proposed in 1964 by Peter Higgs, François Englert, and four other theorists to explain why certain particles have mass.
• The particle was finally discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
• Features:
  • The Higgs boson has a mass of 125 billion electron volts —  meaning it is 130 times more massive than a proton , according to CERN.
  • It is also chargeless with zero spin  —  a quantum mechanical equivalent to angular momentum.
  • The Higgs Boson is the only elementary particle with no spin.
  • Its a “force carrier” particle that comes into play when particles interact with each other, with a boson exchanged during this interaction.

Key facts about Large Hadron Collider (LHC):

• It is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
• Location: Near Geneva, Switzerland; across the border of France and Switzerland.
• The LHC, built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), is on the energy frontier of physics research, conducting experiments with highly energised particles.
• The LHC can reproduce the conditions that existed within a billionth of a second of the Big Bang.
• The colossal accelerator allows scientists to collide high-energy subatomic particles in a controlled environment and observe the interactions.
• One of the most significant LHC breakthroughs came in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs Boson.