Unique silicon strip detectors and other components produced by Hamamatsu were key components in the first detection of the Higgs boson — the ... can detect discrete photon events, but it ...

Bosons are the 'force carrying' or 'force-mediating' particles. If a fermion, such as a quark or lepton produces a boson, which is then taken in by another fermion, then a force exists between the ...

Finally, we have bosons. There are gauge bosons (photon, W and Z bosons, gluons), which act as mediators of the fundamental forces, and the Higgs boson, which gives mass to the quarks and leptons.