Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon . ... The physics community is abuzz that a fundamental particle expected by the largely successful Standard Model of particle physics may be soon be found by the huge Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Europe. The term boson refers to a type of fundamental particle with similarities to the photon, while Higgs refers to Peter Higgs , a physicist who among others published research predicting the mechanism through which such a particle might act. ...