The Higgs boson’s most important puzzle remains unsolved
In some ways, the deepest question one can ask about our physical reality is simply, “What is the Universe made of?” In the early 1800s, we thought we knew the answer: atoms. By the early 1900s, the answer had grown much richer: atoms themselves were composed of atomic nuclei and electrons, which were capable of both emitting and absorbing photons: particles of light. However, it was the 1932…
The Higgs boson's most enduring mystery remains unsolved. The Standard Model of elementary particles, which includes quarks, leptons, and all force-carrying bosons, was completed with the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. However, many fundamental questions still remain unanswered. Among these, the puzzle of baryogenesis stands out.
This refers to the question of why the Universe is composed predominantly of matter, not antimatter. Despite our understanding that the masses and properties of Standard Model particles are crucial to this, scientists are still grappling with obtaining the crucial data to fully comprehend this phenomenon.
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