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August 22, 2002 UCI Quarknet The Higgs Particle Sarah D. Johnson University of La Verne August 22, 2002 Outline Mass in the Standard Model Electro-Weak Force Unification and the Higgs Mechanism Searches for the Higgs Particle Future Prospects What We Will Learn When We Find It Mass in the Standard Model Particle Masses (GeV/c2) Questions: II. Electroweak Force Unification and the Higgs Mechanism For two protons in a nucleus the electromagnetic force is 107 times stronger than the weak force, but, at much shorter distances (~10-18 m), the strengths of the weak and the electromagnetic forces b