Nobel Prize Announcement in Physics 2013

The prize was announced by Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Location: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm, Sweden
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Higgs boson is produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, important in particle physics. The heaviest elementary particle, the top quark, has a special affinity to the Higgs. A top and antitop particle pair can be produced through the intermediate decay of Z Boson or photons. The Higgs has a mass of 125GeV/c^2 with an uncertainty of 0.16, with parity of +1.