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In 2012, a highly publicized 'God particle' was discovered at the CERN European Laboratory. The scientific name of this particle is:

aHiggs electron
bHiggs boson✓ Correct
cA quark
dNone of the above

Explanation

In 2012, through experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in the CERN European Laboratory, the ‘Higgs boson’, popularly called the ‘God particle’, was discovered. This hypothesis was presented in 1964 by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Peter Higgs. The particle was named the Higgs boson after Higgs and the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.

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