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Given a Higgs boson and asked if it could decay into two Z bosons.

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Step 1.
Peter Higgs and others in 1964 used electroweak theory to suggest an explanation by means of a Higgs field and its particle, the Higgs boson, which interact with the W and Z to slow them down. In being forced to go slower than the speed of light, they would have to have mass.

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