Is the Higgs boson already found?

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The Higgs boson is a theoretical particle essential to the Higgs mechanism, which mathematically imparts mass within the framework of gauge theory. The Higgs mechanism does not predict the mass of the W± and Z weak gauge bosons, as it lacks the capability to determine the coupling values between the Higgs field and these bosons. Current data suggests that the mass of the Higgs boson is likely similar to that of the Z boson, indicating that it should have already been discovered.

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what EXACTLY is the Higg's boson?
 
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Kind of a gauge theory patch, nothing else.
 
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neutronstar11 said:
what EXACTLY is the Higg's boson?

The Higgs boson is a theoretical particle required by the Higg's mechanism. The Higg's mechanism is a way to mathematically add mass to the present theory and thus may solve the gauge invariance problem.

You can always get general information from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/" but you do have to be carefull. Some inaccruacies go uncorrected.

For example
"The Higgs mechanism in the standard model successfully predicts the mass of the W±, and Z weak gauge bosons, which are naturally massless."

The Higgs mechanism does not in fact predict the mass of the W±, and Z weak gauge bosons as the Higgs mechanism does not predict the coupling value between the Higgs field and the W±, and Z bosons.

In fact using the data from the W and Z bosons indicates the most likely mass for the Higgs boson is about the same as the Z boson. This means the Higgs boson should have already been found!
 
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