A Particle is Born: Making the Higgs Famous

Figure 1. A representation of the standard model, designed by Walter Murch for the 2013 film Particle Fever. The Higgs boson is shown in the center, surrounded by the other particles—the photon and other ‘force-carriers’ in blue, the electron and other ‘leptons’ in green, and the quarks in red.Figure 1. A representation of the standard model, designed by Walter Murch for the 2013 film Particle Fever. The Higgs boson is shown in the center, surrounded by the other particles—the photon and other ‘force-carriers’ in blue, the electron and oth.