Higgs Boson
The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, 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. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin, even parity, no electric charge, and no colour charge that couples to mass. It is also very unstable, decaying into other particles almost immediately. The Higgs field is a scalar field, with two neutral and two electrically charged components that form a complex doublet of the weak isospin SU symmetry. Its "Mexican hat-shaped" potential leads it to take a nonzero value everywhere, which breaks the weak isospin symmetry of the electroweak interaction, and via the Higgs mechanism gives mass to many particles.
