TAU Researchers Part of Team of International Scientists to
Uncover the "God Particle" Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Higgs boson
particle crucial for explaining how the universe was built Tel
Aviv University's Prof. Yaron Oz, dean of TAU's Faculty of Exact
Sciences, and Prof. Aharon Levy of TAU's School of Physics and
Astronomy were among the theoretical and experimental physicists
who made the groundbreaking discovery of a particle known as the
Higgs boson or "God particle," a key to understanding how the
universe was built. The discovery was made at Geneva's European
Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) and announced in early
July. First proposed in 1964 by a team of six physicists,
including University of Edinburgh Professor Peter Higgs, the
particle is said to explain the existence of mass. In particle
physics, bosons are one of the two fundamental classes of
subatomic particles. The Higgs boson is the final building
block, missing until now from the "Standard Model," which
describes the structure of matter