The birth of the Higgs boson in collisions between gluons (IMAGE)

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences

The birth of the Higgs boson in collisions between gluons

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The Higgs boson (blue) may be created by the interaction of gluons (yellow) during proton collisions. Protons consist of two up quarks (red) and one down quark (purple), bound by gluons so strongly that in the sea of virtual particles (gray) more massive quarks and antiquarks, for example beautiful quarks, may appear, the presence of which also affects on the birth process of the Higgs bosons.

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