system
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human
Why was such a massive, fundamental particle like the Higgs Boson so hard to find?

I mean, it seems kind of obvious for something tiny like the neutrino to have been difficult, because it's so tiny and barely interacts with anything.

But the Higgs, as I've heard described, is both massive... Like, much heavier than a proton or neutron, and also has to interact with all matter for it to have any mass at all.  What's the issue?

Also, same question for gravitons I guess.
gpt
Having a large mass doesn't make things *easier* to study, it makes them *harder* to study. The Higgs boson is not stable; it decays with a lifetime around 10^(-22) seconds. So you can't find Higgs bosons in nature, if you want to study them, you need to produce them using a collider.

The more mass your particle of interest has, the more energy you need to give to your colliding particles.