The Higgs field is best described as a field that

a. explains why stable matter appears to be composed of fermions.
b. particles interact with to acquire mass.
c. governs the electroweak interaction.
d. carries the strong force, carried by gluons.
e. has been verified experimentally by many accelerators.


b.
The Higgs field is theoretically the field with which particles interact to define their mass. Particles that interact weakly have small mass and vice versa. The Higgs field force carrier is the Higgs particle, a boson

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