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Higgs boson in American English
a hypothetical massive boson that binds to other subatomic particles, giving them mass
noun: a hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin

Higgs boson in British English
noun: an elementary particle with zero spin and mass greater than zero, predicted to exist by electroweak theory and other gauge theories, discovered in 2012

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