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Is the Higgs boson only a particle of pure mass? It has no charge, no spin, no color, no flavor, etc. Does it have any other non-zero characteristic besides just mass?
Is Higgs boson a particle of pure mass?
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I'm not sure what it would mean to be a "particle of pure mass", but in any case the answer is no. 
The Higgs boson is a particle, not too dissimilar from other particles. It's thought to have spin 0, space parity +, charge parity +, and zero values for the various possible types of charge. The charges must be zero because they change sign under charge conjugation, and the Higgs boson is its own antiparticle.
The Higgs boson is a particle, not too dissimilar from other particles. It's thought to have spin 0, space parity +, charge parity +, and zero values for the various possible types of charge. The charges must be zero because they change sign under charge conjugation, and the Higgs boson is its own antiparticle.