The Higgs boson is a real particle but it’s hard to detect because it has a very short lifetime and quickly decays into other particles.
It can decay into two particles, an electron and a positron. When you consider quantum mechanics, you can predict roughly how long it will take the Higgs boson to decay, but when it spits out that electron and positron, you can’t predict the direction in which they will move.
Entanglement is the fact that you cannot separately predict what the observational outcome will be for the electron and positron.
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