Q. With reference to Higgs Boson, consider the following statements;
1.It is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field.
2.Higgs Boson has the longest life span among all elementary particles.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: A
Notes:
Statement 1 is correct: The Higgs boson, also known as the God Particle, is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks.
Statement 2 is incorrect: Higgs Boson has a short lifespan. Once it is created during the particle collisions, it sticks around for merely less than a trillionth of a billionth of a second or, more precisely, 1.6 x 10-22 seconds.
Source: DTE
