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Hadron

Fundamental particles combine in different ways to make other particles. Hadrons are particles that are composed of quarks and/or anti-quarks. There are two kinds of hadrons: baryons and mesons. click to enlarge image

Higgs

The Higgs boson is a particle that manifests itself from the Higgs field. The Higgs field is is hypothesized to be everywhere in space and explains why particles have mass; the more certain particles interact with the Higgs, the more massive they are.

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