Why did it take so long to find the Higgs?
Posted by knzhou, at physics.stackexchange.com,
The $W$ and $Z$ boson took a long time to be discovered because they were so heavy; we couldn't produce them in a particle…
Evidence for a Particle Produced in Association with Weak Bosons and Decaying to a Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pair in Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron
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