Fortunately, theorists Robert Brout, François Englert and Peter Higgs made a proposal that was to solve this problem. What we now call the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism gives a mass to the W and Z ...

With the basic properties of the Higgs boson established, it might appear that what remains to be done is just a few more coupling measurements to complete the table and that’s it. But there’s much ...