Desperately seeking the Higgs boson
Manila Times | Sunday, January 14, 2007 | Rony V. Diaz
Posted on 01/15/2007 4:57:53 AM EST by SunkenCiv
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Physicists Announce Possible Violation of Standard Model of Particle Physics
Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Published: February 8, 2001 Author: News Release
Posted on 02/09/2001 12:40:58 PST by Nebullis
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Experiments to look for the Higgs
Jane Butt
Last updated 28 October 2003
http://www.pparc.ac.uk/ps/bbs/bbs_mass_he.asp
The Higgs boson has not been observed yet but it is now a major target for collider projects. We don’t know what the mass of the Higgs is, but it is possible to infer its value from measurements of the masses of other particles such as the W and Z bosons and top quark. It is thought to be at least 114 GeV, and the last data from the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) provided hints that it could be around 115 GeV.
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To understand the Higgs mechanism, imagine that a room full of physicists quietly chattering is like space filled only with the Higgs field.... |
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... a well known scientist walks in, creating a disturbance as he moves across the room, and attracting a cluster of admirers with each step ... |
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... this increases his resistance to movement, in other words, he acquires mass, just like a particle moving through the Higgs field ... |
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... if a rumour crosses the room ... |
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... it creates the same kind of clustering, but this time among the scientists themselves. In this analogy, these clusters are the Higgs particles. |
It's somehwere under all the shielding...
