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Jan 20, 2020 at 17:22 comment added foolishmuse thanks, that's what i was looking for.
Jan 20, 2020 at 17:11 comment added G. Smith This CERN article says that in 2017 the LHC produced three million Higgs bosons. If the accelerator operated continuously, that would be only one every 10 seconds. Each one lasted only about $10^{-22}$ seconds before decaying. So, even when we were making them, most of the time the density was zero!
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Jan 20, 2020 at 16:44 comment added G. Smith They are very hard to make. According to Wikipedia, only one in every 10 billion proton-proton collisions at the LHC created a Higgs boson, even when all the collisions had enough energy to do so.
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Jan 20, 2020 at 16:40 comment added foolishmuse What I'm trying to find is how many bosons are there when they are there. You say we use a particle accelerator to create them. In nature, how many are created when they are created. How many are created per square metre or what ever other measure is appropriate?
Jan 20, 2020 at 16:35 history answered G. Smith CC BY-SA 4.0