If not, don't sweat it -- no one else has, either. But we feel pretty sure that it's there nonetheless. The Higgs particle (or Higgs boson) is a hypothetical particle thought to give matter its mass. Several UW scientists are part of a massive (excuse the pun) team seeking the Higgs underground along the Franco-Swiss border. Why there? Well, it's not because the French and Swiss are more massive than everyone else. It's because that's where . . . well, you'll have to read the story to find out.