elementary particle
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The knockout blow for muon colliders was, ironically, the discovery of the Higgs boson, the particle responsible for giving other elementary particles mass.
From Scientific American
In the first milliseconds after the Big Bang, the universe was hot, dense and full of elementary particles like protons, neutrons and electrons swimming around in a plasma.
From Scientific American
In Dr. Brizhik’s case, the money will support 53 researchers at the institute, where physicists study plasmas, elementary particles and astrophysical phenomena.
From New York Times
Answering these questions is the work of elementary particle physics.
From New York Times
This could have pointed to the existence of previously unseen elementary particles that affect the decay of B mesons.
From Scientific American
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