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Problem 4c
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Section: Search and Learn
Chapter 32: Elementary Particles
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3 Dec 2021
Given information
Given a Higgs boson and asked if it could decay into two Z bosons.
Step-by-step explanation
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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