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In the Standard model, confirmation came about almost all particles except the Higgs Boson. To prove that the Higgs Mechanism is right, confirmation about the existence of Higgs Boson was necessary. Doubts emerged from many quarters that the Standard model itself would fall apart and that no such particle ever existed.
Finally, the existence of Higgs Boson was confirmed, thanks to the Atlas and CMS experiments in the Large Hadron Collider.
There was a reason for not being able to find out the Higgs Boson earlier. There is a mass limit wherein, it was predicted that such particles exist and we didn’ t have the proper equipments with sufficient capacity to find out that limit. But LHC has that capacity. That particle accelerator was designed itself with the aim to find out the existence of Higgs Boson.
In the name of the‘ name’
The scientific discovery of S. N. Bose and Higgs Boson theory has no relation except in the names. Bose had discovered a statistics. He used that statistics for derivation of the quantum equation formulated by Marx Plank. He proved that, to do so, there was no need of classical particle theory.
He didn’ t contribute anything more in that direction. But without doubt, his discovery was a brilliant turning point in quantum physics and all Indians can definitely take pride in that.
But the real issue here is whether Bose has anything to do with Higgs Boson and also whether Indians have anything to boast about in it.
We now learned that it was just because that quantum particle is a force-carrier particle which represents the Higgs field. If in 1945, Dirak had given another name to those forcecarrier particle, what then? For example, assume that Derik had names those particles which follow Bose-Einstein statistics as‘ Einsteinion’, then naturally Higgs Boson would have become now Higgs Einsteinion.
How childish it would be if, say, a British newspaper comes up with a claim that all British people can rightly take pride in the cleaning of‘ Bilathikulam’ in Calicut? Claims of pride in the name of Higgs Boson would be nothing different from claims as that.
What we can rationally say or claim is that, Higgs Boson is just another particle like others, which are generally known in the name of an Indian Scientist Sathyendra Nath Bose.
April, 2016