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Higgs mechanism, an Uncommon card
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 78,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons would be considered massless, but measurements show that the W+, W−, and Z0 bosons actually have relatively large masses of around 80 GeV/c2.
- The Higgs field resolves this conundrum.
- The simplest description of the mechanism adds to the Standard Model a quantum field, which permeates all of space.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Higgs mechanism article was read about 78,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Higgs mechanism (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cush, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.





