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Psychiatry needs its Higgs boson moment
Fighting the scourge of mental illness means giving psychiatry the kind of boost that physics got from the Higgs hunt by Nick Craddock (….) Recently, some colleagues and I launched a report, Strengthening Academic Psychiatry in the UK, and found ourselves justifying how psychiatry had acquired – and was still struggling to shrug off – […]
The Higgs Particle
April 21, 2013
what is it, and why do we badly need it? Wolfgang Bietenholz We sketch in simple terms the concept of the Higgs mechanism, and its importance in particle physics. To the best of our knowledge, the world consists of only very few types of elementary particles, the smallest entities of matter, which are indivisible. They […]
Higgs boson is too saintly and supersymmetry too shy
November 23, 2012
by Michael Slezak HOPES of using the Higgs boson and the elegant theory of supersymmetry as shortcuts to discovering the mysteries of the universe are evaporating fast. That’s the verdict of a major update from the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland – the first since a boson resembling the Higgs was spotted […]
Why do physicists care so much about finding the Higgs boson?
November 23, 2012
By Daisy Yuhas If you’ve read anything about the Higgs boson, you probably know that this particle is special because it can explain how fundamental particles acquire mass. Specifically, evidence of the boson is evidence that an omnipresent Higgs field exists—one that slows particles down and makes them heavy. But there’s a misconception that sometimes […]
Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind
November 20, 2012
Professor Susskind presents an explanation of what the Higgs mechanism is, and what it means to “give mass to particles.” He also explains what’s at stake for the future of physics and cosmology. http://youtu.be/JqNg819PiZY
The large hadron collider and the Higgs boson
October 25, 2012
UCL lunch hour lecture UCL runs a series of public lectures at lunchtime. On Tuesday I gave one of these, about the news from the energy frontier, including the discovery on the fourth of July this year. Here is the recording. For the past two years, until the end of last month, I was convener […]
Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)
August 29, 2012
A Capella Science – Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody) http://youtu.be/VtItBX1l1VY
The beauty of the Higgs boson
August 5, 2012
Jeff Forshaw The dust is beginning to settle – a new particle has been discovered using the Large Hadron Collider. Discovering new particles of nature is not an everyday occurrence and we are reasonably entitled to proclaim that this is the arrival of the Higgs. We aren’t certain, though: more careful examination of the particle’s […]
ATLAS: 5.9 Sigma For A 126 GeV Higgs !
July 31, 2012
By Tommaso Dorigo ATLAS has just released a note which summarizes the searches for the standard model Higgs boson in 7-TeV and 8-TeV data. Since July 4th the main improvement is the addition of the WW channel, which had not been shown back then. With it, the combined local significance of the 126 GeV Higgs […]
Answering your Higgs questions
July 27, 2012
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a Higgs-like boson on July 4 – but what does that mean? What’s a Higgs boson? And how can a particle be like a Higgs? Read on to learn more about the new particle and how it fits into our world. The following questions were asked […]
Finally – A Higgs Boson Story Anyone Can Understand
July 16, 2012
Einstein famously marveled over the idea that the universe was comprehensible. But on July 4, the universe started to sound weird and unnecessarily complicated. Physicists worldwide were celebrating an elusive thing called the Higgs Boson, which had apparently made a brief appearance. They kept repeating that it was important because it gives matter mass, but […]
Unveiling the Higgs mechanism to students
July 12, 2012
Giovanni Organtini In this paper we give the outline of a lecture given to undergraduate students aiming at understanding why physicists are so much interested in the Higgs boson. The lecture has been conceived for students not yet familiar with advanced physics and is suitable for several disciplines, other than physics. The Higgs mechanism is […]
Boson-spotter’s guide helps you decode the Higgs
July 12, 2012
The elusive Higgs boson, or something very close, has finally been spotted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. The next challenge is to pin down whether the new particle is the boson physicists were expecting or some other beast. One of the first things physicists want to know about the new particle is itsspin, a […]
Higgs Boson Music: What Might Quarks Sound Like?
July 11, 2012
Using a data “sonification” process, researchers at the pan-European GÉANT network have created melodies from the results of the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider – the experiment that found the so-called ‘God Particle’ http://youtu.be/mmvE8nUXw1w
Higgs Boson May Be An Imposter, Say Particle Physicists
July 9, 2012
At least two other particles could be masquerading as the God particle, according to a new analysis of the data from CERN The news coming out of CERN in recent weeks has been hard to miss. At first, there was a dripfeed of gossip which turned into a firehose of ‘Higgsteria’. Finally, last Wednesday, CERN […]
Higgs Boson Discovery Timelapse
July 8, 2012
These animations show the Higgs Exclusion plots and Signal plots as they evolved over time until the discovery of the Higgs Boson. These were produced by viXra unofficial combinations of LEP, Tevatron and LHC data. http://youtu.be/wWOo6fygNz0
A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story?
July 8, 2012
The announcement early yesterday morning of experimental evidence for what’s presumably the Higgs particle brings a certain closure to a story I’ve watched (and sometimes been a part of) for nearly 40 years. In some ways I felt like a teenager again. Hearing about a new particle being discovered. And asking the same questions I […]
Ian Hinchliffe Answers Your Higgs Boson Questions
July 6, 2012
Ian Hinchliffe, a theoretical physicist who heads Berkeley Lab’s sizable contingent with the ATLAS experiment at CERN, answers many of your questions about the Higgs boson. Ian invited viewers to send in questions about the Higgs via email, Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube in an “Ask a Scientist” video posted July 3: http://youtu.be/xhuA3wCg06s CERN’s July 4 announcement […]
Is the resonance at 125 GeV the Higgs boson?
July 6, 2012
Pier Paolo Giardino, Kristjan Kannike, Martti Raidal, Alessandro Strumia The recently discovered resonance at 125 GeV has properties remarkably close to those of the Standard Model Higgs boson. We perform model-independent fits of all presently available data. The non-standard best-fits found in our previous analyses remain favored with respect to the SM fit, mainly but […]
Le boson de Higgs a deux «papas» belges
July 6, 2012
Le physicien Peter Higgs reconnaît lui-même devoir partager la paternité de « sa » particule avec plusieurs collègues, aux premiers rangs desquels deux Belges, Richard Brout et François Englert. François Englert et Richard Brout sont victimes d’une grande injustice. Bien que les deux physiciens belges aient coécrit le premier papier publié sur le boson scalaire en août […]
Unofficial Higgs Combinations
July 5, 2012
Press here: http://vixra.org/Combo/ Read also: Are unofficial Higgs Combinations “Valid” ?
Live: Latest update in the search for the Higgs boson
July 3, 2012
press here: CERN webcast (update) CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought […]
A brief history of a boson: Timeline of Higgs
July 3, 2012
by Jacob Aron It’s turned into science’s worst-kept secret. Tomorrow, physicists at CERN near Geneva in Switzerland are expected to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson, the culmination of a 50-year quest to find the elusive particle that gives others their mass. Here’s how they got there. 1964 Peter Higgs is the first to […]
Origins of Mass
July 2, 2012
Frank Wilczek Newtonian mechanics posited mass as a primary quality of matter, incapable of further elucidation. We now see Newtonian mass as an emergent property. Most of the mass of standard matter, by far, arises dynamically, from back-reaction of the color gluon fields of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The equations for massless particles support extra symmetries […]
God particle is ‘found’
July 2, 2012
Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday Higgs boson particle has been discovered Scientists ‘will say they are 99.99% certain’ the particle has been found Leading physicists have been invited to event – sparking speculation that Higgs Boson particle has been found ‘God Particle’ gives particles that make up atoms their mass Scientists at […]
Higgs Discovery on the Brink, but is it THE Higgs?
June 25, 2012
By now you should know that physicists working on the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are about to announce important new results in the search for the Higgs boson. The announcement will be made on the morning of the 4th July at CERN in advance of the ICHEP conference in Melbourne […]
Higgs News ?!
June 17, 2012
I hope my colleagues will pardon me if I just point you readers here to a site which has many more readers anyway, where Peter Woit is distributing a rumor about ATLAS and CMS having both observation-level signals in their data. I am unable to comment (yet), but of course if the rumor is true then in […]
Why the Higgs particle hunt was always going to be a waiting game
June 17, 2012
What does it mean to know something? As the experiments at Cern continue to show, it means testing a theory to destruction Jeff Forshaw Two beams of protons circulate around the 27km circumference of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border. Those protons moving clockwise collide, head on, with those moving anticlockwise and […]
Searching for the Higgs Particle
April 26, 2012
In anticipation of the potential for experimental verification of the existence of the Higgs boson?a long-hypothesized particle thought responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass?the World Leaders Forum hosted a special program, co-sponsored by the Columbia Science Initiative, on April 18 at 4:00 p.m. in the Low Library rotunda. more; http://news.columbia.edu/higgs http://youtu.be/pt8oRWNSwAk http://youtu.be/C0rBKyU1vu0
Conflicting Higgs results muddy particle hunt
March 7, 2012
The plot is thickening for the still-hidden Higgs boson. Two US-based experiments report new, hopeful hints of the slippery particle, but one of the two main detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says an existing signal has started to fade away. The announcements, all made today at the Recontres de Moriondmeeting in La Thuile, Italy, […]
Tevatron collider’s mighty boost for Higgs hunt
March 6, 2012
by Lisa Grossman The Tevatron may now be defunct, but it is still detangling the nature of matter from beyond the grave. The late particle-smasher’s two main experiments, CDF and DZero, have released the most precise measurement yet of the mass of the W boson, one of the fundamental particles in the standard model of […]
World’s best measurement of W boson mass …
March 2, 2012
… points to Higgs mass and tests Standard Model The world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The new measurement is an important, independent constraint of […]
LHC energy boost will aid hunt for Higgs boson
February 14, 2012
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will increase the energies of the bunches of subatomic particles called protons that it smashes together. The boost should improve the collider’s chances of discovering “new physics” and definitively confirming or denying the existence of Higgs boson particle. The proton beams’ energies will be increased by 14%, for […]
What the latest LHC revelations say about the Higgs
February 9, 2012
In December 2011, the elusive Higgs boson was back in the limelight when hints of the particle emerged in the wreckage of proton collisions at the world’s most powerful particle smasher – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. There have been no new collisions since, but researchers from the LHC’s two main detectors […]
A Historical Profile of the Higgs Boson
January 31, 2012
John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos The Higgs boson was postulated in 1964, and phenomenological studies of its possible production and decays started in the early 1970s, followed by studies of its possible production in e+ e-, pbar p and pp collisions, in particular. Until recently, the most sensitive searches for the Higgs […]
Searching for Higgs: from LEP towards LHC
December 23, 2011
W.-D. Schlatter (CERN), P. M. Zerwas (DESY) After a brief introduction to the theoretical basis of the Higgs mechanism for generating the masses of elementary particles, the experimental searches for Higgs particles will be summarized, from bounds at LEP to inferences for LHC. The report will focus on the Standard Model, though some central results […]
What Higgs result means for dark matter conspiracy
December 21, 2011
RECENT hints of a featherweight Higgs boson don’t just take us nearer to a complete standard model of physics. The results affect a possible link between the Higgs and dark matter, the invisible stuff making up 80 per cent of the universe’s matter. The Higgs is the last remaining hole in the standard model, the […]
Update on the Standard Model Higgs searches in ATLAS and CMS
December 13, 2011
The main conclusion is that the Standard Model Higgs boson, if it exists, is most likely to have a mass constrained to the range 115.5-131 GeV by the ATLAS experiment, and 115-127 GeV by CMS 13 December 2011. In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their […]
Articles on Standard Model Higgs
December 11, 2011
by Matt Strassler 1. Production of the Standard Model Higgs Particle 2. Decays of the Standard Model Higgs 3. Seeking and Studying the Standard Model Higgs Particle
Is the Higgs boson real?
December 6, 2011
Read also: Cern scientist expects ‘first glimpse’ of Higgs boson (8-12-2011) by Ian Sample – guardian.co.uk Rumours abound that Cern scientists have finally glimpsed the long-sought Higgs boson. We asked physicists to share their thoughts on the elusive entity…. …… I asked some physicists to share, in a couple of simple sentences, their hunches on what gives […]
Higgs-mass predictions and rumors …
December 4, 2011
(update 9-12-2011) Higgs mass: 124.6 GeV CMS, 126 GeV ATLAS Higgs rumors (from here): 126 GeV – 3.5 sigma in ATLAS and 2.5 sigma at 124 GeV for CMS … …. read also: Higgs Expectations , by Tommaso Dorigo Higgs Boson Mass predicted by the Four Color Theorem Ashay Dharwadker, Vladimir Khachatryan 28 Dec 2009 Abstract: We show […]
Higgs boson’s moment of truth is fast approaching at the LHC
November 18, 2011
Tantalising hints of the Higgs boson will be confirmed or ruled out at the LHC in the coming months, say researchers by Ιan Sample Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva are edging ever closer to answering one of the most profound questions in particle physics: does the Higgs boson exist? Speaking at a […]
What if they don’t find the Higgs?
October 28, 2011
So, the 2011 run of the LHC is coming to a close, I mean the interesting part . A 5 inverse femtobarn stash of data has been collected by each ATLAS and CMS. These data will by fully analyzed and scrutinized by the late winter 2012, while rumors should start popping up on blogs before […]
The 327 GeV ZZ Anomaly
October 14, 2011
Higgs boson hunters often catch themselves dreaming of the boson having a mass high enough to give rise to the spectacular decay into two Z bosons, and then four charged leptons in the final state. At a hadron collider -let’s talk of the LHC to be specific- such a signature is the only one providing […]
Scientists at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider near end of the search for the Higgs boson
October 9, 2011
For almost 20 years, Bill Murray has been hunting the Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic particle that is thought to give mass to the basic building blocks of nature. In those two decades, the 45-year-old Edinburgh-born researcher has watched the search for the holy grail of physics narrow to a tighter and tighter group of […]
Is The Higgs Boson Somewhere Inside Your iphone?
October 8, 2011
LHSee: discover what happen at the LHC. Want to find out how to Hunt the Higgs Boson using your phone? Ever wondered how the Large Hadron Collider experiments work, and what the collisions look like? Scientists at the world’s biggest scientific experiment – the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva – are trying to answer […]
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