The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle in physics, discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider. It is associated with the Higgs field, which gives mass to other particles through a process called electroweak symmetry breaking. This particle is crucial for understanding why some particles, like protons and neutrons, have mass while others, like photons, do not. The discovery of the Higgs boson confirmed the existence of the Higgs field, a key component of the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the fundamental forces and particles in the universe.