Has the speed of the higgs boson been measured yet? If not, what is it's speed predicted to be?
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2Particle with non-zero mass can take on any speed below the speed of light (given sufficient energy). Particles with zero mass are the only ones that have a fixed speed and they all have the same speed: $c$. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Dec 07 '14 at 04:06
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1Can we say that applies to the higgs boson without testing the fact? – Jitter Dec 07 '14 at 04:37
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1@Jitter: why do you think the Higgs boson would behave differently to any other massive particle? – John Rennie Dec 07 '14 at 10:56
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elementary particles do not have any particular speed. It could be could down untill almost zero motion, or it can be speeed up until becoming a black hole, who knows.
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In theory then we could have a higgs condensate one day if we cool it down befor it decays;-) – Jitter Dec 07 '14 at 04:39
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4511 for example. It just depends on the scale of "cool" – anna v Dec 07 '14 at 05:30
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see also http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/17944/how-does-the-higgs-mechanism-work – anna v Dec 07 '14 at 06:22