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Higgs boson comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has quantum behavior	has acceptance statu	has spin	has definition
boson	particle	Bose-Einstein statistics		integral	A particle, or pattern of string vibration, with a whole number amount of spin; typically a messenger particle.
hypothetical particle	particle		hypothetical
Higgs boson	boson	Bose-Einstein statistics	hypothetical	integral	A hypothetical, spinless particle that plays an important role in the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory (and in other theories involving spontaneous symmetry breaking, e.g. GUTs).

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