It's the
field that is key in many of the theories that Physicists describe. The particle is a manifestation or perturbation in the field. So for example the Higgs Boson is a tiny vibration in the Higgs field (analogous to the Photon being a tiny vibration in the Electromagnetic field). Detecting a particle like the Higgs Boson (or its decay products) is evidence for the existence of a Higgs Field. The Higgs boson is difficult to detect because its difficult to produce in the laboratory. The Higgs boson is a heavy particle which doesn't interact too much with other field. You need to generate an enormous amount of energy in a tiny space to produce Higgs Bosons - hence the construction of the massive 10 billion dollar Large Hadron Collider.
The detection of the Graviton is an interesting one because it's a hypothetical particle which, like the photon, has no mass. (like the Higgs particle, the Graviton is also a boson).
If the Higgs field (particle) is responsible for the property of "mass" in the Universe, can we assume that the Higgs particle is some how intertwined with the Graviton?? (both are supposedly classified as bosons. Although the Higgs field doesnt interact with other fields? Not like the TOP quark, which is a heavier particle than the Higgs Boson but can interact and therefore a little easier to produce and detect)
