Higgs got a doctorate in physics, and then he became a senior researcher at the University of Attenborough. Later, he worked as a lecturer at universities such as London University. 1960, Higgs returned to the University of Edinburgh as a mathematics lecturer and has since settled in this city.
During his teaching, Higgs became interested in mass production and put forward the view that particles had no mass when the Big Bang first happened. But in less than a second, they get the quality. This is the result of their interaction in a field. Higgs assumes that this field can penetrate space and give every subatomic particle interacting with it mass. Although the Higgs field will give quarks and leptons mass, the mass it gives is negligible for other subatomic particles, such as protons and neutrons. Among these particles, gluons that bind quarks together provide most of the mass.
1964, Higgs wrote a short article and published it in the journal Physical Communication run by CERN. Later, he wrote a paper for Physical Communication, describing a theoretical model he imagined, which is now called "Higgs mechanism", but it was typed back by the editor.
Higgs added another chapter to it and sent his paper to Physical Review, a top physics magazine. The paper was published the following year. At about the same time, several physicists, such as Brott, independently made similar speculations. At the 50th anniversary of the Annual Review of Physics, similar papers of six scientists, including Higgs, were all rated as "milestones". Before the LHC was cooled by liquid nitrogen and the protons passed through the huge ring at a speed of 99.99%, Higgs came to Geneva to have a look at this machine that was too big to be normal. He entered an underground tunnel with a depth of 9 1 m and watched two "giant eyes" of LHC-recorders CMS and Atlas. He said: "That book suddenly overwhelmed me, and I was deeply impressed by the technical problems that people solved." Ironically, it was the editor who worked at CERN who filmed Higgs' paper.
Higgs said that he was 90% sure that the LHC would "crash" the Higgs boson. He hopes to see the last particle on the standard model of the microscopic world discovered by human beings before his 84th birthday on May 20 13. "If my prediction of quality is correct, I will see relevant data soon; But before you release these data, it will take some time to analyze. " The reporter asked Higgs what he would do if the LHC really discovered the Higgs boson as expected. Higgs said shyly, "I should be able to open a bottle of something …" What is it? "champagne. It takes too long to finish a bottle of whisky. " What if it doesn't work? Higgs said that if he still doesn't succeed this time, he will be confused: "If I am wrong, I will be very sad. If I can't find it, I will no longer understand what I thought I understood before. "