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Higgs Boson-Like Particle Discovery Claimed at LHC

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Higgs Boson-Like Particle Discovery Claimed at LHC - By Paul Rincon, Science Editor, BBC News Website, Geneva/ BBC News Science & Environment/ BBC.com.uk

The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass.

If confirmed, this will be the most important scientific discovery of the past century.

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Interesting

We are following this story also.
 

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Been reading a bit about this also. Will be interesting to hear how it's presented.
 

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I thought the LHC was supposed to create a black hole that swallows the solar system on December 21st and validates the Mayan calender.

Who knew?
 

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All Signs Point to Higgs, But Scientific Certainty is a Waiting Game - by Dennis Overbye/ Science/ The New York Times.com

In their bones, physicists feel it is the long-lost Higgs boson, but in science, feelings take second place to data.

So these same physicists admit that it will take more work and analysis before they will have the cold numbers that clinch the case that the new particle announced on July 4 last year is in fact the exact boson first predicted by Peter Higgs and others in 1964 to be the arbiter of mass and cosmic diversity.


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Chasing the Higgs Boson - by Dennis Overbye / Science/ The New York Times.com

At the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, two armies of scientists struggled to close in on physics' most elusive particle.

Excellent article about how two armies of scientists closed in on physics’ most elusive particle.

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SUBATOMIC SPEEDWAY The Large Hadron Collider extends for 17 miles underneath the Swiss and French countrysides. At full power, protons race around the entire loop 11,245 times a second.

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MAGNETIC MUSCLE The length of the Large Hadron Collider contains a total of 9,300 magnets to accelerate and control the protons on their way to collision.


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For Nobel, They Can Thank the 'God Particle' - by Dennis Overbye/ Science/ The New York Times.com

"The “God particle” became the prize particle on Tuesday.

Two theoretical physicists who suggested that an invisible ocean of energy suffusing space is responsible for the mass and diversity of the particles in the universe won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning. They are Peter W. Higgs, 84, of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and François Englert, 80, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium..."

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- What Is the Higgs?


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Peter Higgs Went to Lunch While Nobel Physics Prize was Announced - by Severin Carrell/ Scotland Correspondent/ The Guardian.com

Physicist says he learned of his award from an old neighbour who stopped him on the street as he returned from lunch

"...Even his closest friends had no clear idea where he was. He has no mobile phone, no computer and does not use email..."

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Peter Higgs at a press conference at Edinburgh University. Photograph: Graham Stuart/EPA


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The Nobel Prize in Physics is Really a Nobel Prize in Math - by Edward Frenkel/ Tech/ The Atlantic.com

Experiment is the ultimate judge of a theory, and that’s why we need expensive and sophisticated machines like CERN's particle accelerator. But the amazing fact is that scientists like Einstein and Higgs made their discoveries with little more than pen and paper.

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The Large Hadron Collider, receiving the infrastructural improvements that have kept it offline since February 2013 (CERN)


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To Scientists in Pursuit, a Bit of Matter is No Small Matter - by A.O. Scott/ Movie Review/ The New York Times.com

‘Particle Fever’ Tells of Search for the Higgs Boson.

"A description of “Particle Fever” — Mark Levinson’s mind-blowing new documentary — must grapple with some issues of scale. This is a modest, compact movie about the largest imaginable subject: the structure of the cosmos.

It tells the story of an enormous project, involving decades of labor, hundreds of millions of dollars and miles of Swiss real estate, devoted to finding something almost immeasurably small: the Higgs boson, a subatomic morsel believed by physicists to hold the key to understanding the universe..."


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A scene from the documentary "Particle Fever," directed by Mark Levinson. Credit CERN


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The Search for the Higgs Boson - and Why Science Will Defeat Stupidity - by Andrew O"Hehir/ Salon.com

A thrilling documentary makes science look awesome. But does this tremendous discovery mean "the end of physics"?


“Particle Fever” is now playing in Los Angeles, New York, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Toronto. It opens March 14 in Chicago, Nashville, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle; March 19 in Ithaca, N.Y.; March 21 in Baltimore, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington; March 28 in Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, Santa Fe, N.M., and Columbus, Ohio; April 4 in Charlotte, N.C., Charlottesville, Va., and Boise, Idaho; April 11 in Albany, N.Y.; and April 18 in Eugene, Ore., Knoxville, Tenn., and Austin, Texas, with more cities, online streaming and home video to follow.


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Large Hadron Collider Quiz: Are You Ready for Run 2? - from Science/ Life and Physics/ TheGuardian.com

"CERN will restart its physics rollercoaster in May, at higher energies than ever before. But are you ready for it? Have you learned the lessons of Run 1? What the hell is that thing in the picture? Take this quiz to find out!..."

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Mystery object Photograph: Gerhard Brandt/Gerhard Brandt


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The Guardian View on the Large Hadron Collider: Back to the Future - Editorial/ TheGuardian.com

"Cern’s pathbreaking accelerator remains a breathtaking piece of engineering and science, as well as an example of European cooperation at its best.

Later this month an engineer will throw a switch and one of Europe’s most successful cooperations will be back in business. The Large Hadron Collider has already identified a mysterious entity from the first trillionth of a second of creation called Higgs Boson and won two physicists a Nobel prize – and that was at half power. The big machine at Cern in Geneva has now been overhauled, enhanced and retuned. It will cautiously accelerate to full energy in the summer.

In engineering terms alone, the partnership of thousands of scientists and engineers has been breathtaking. To function, the accelerator’s superconductors must be kept at just a degree or so lower than intergalactic space: that makes the instrument the coldest place in the universe. The piping around which the beams of protons whizz must be maintained at a vacuum as tenuous as interplanetary space. The matter accelerated in the collider is designed to reach 99.9999991% the speed of light in a vacuum.

If you shone a torch at the nearest star and simultaneously fired a Cern particle, the first torchlight would arrive in four years and the accelerated proton less than two seconds later. In the course of such acceleration the propelled fragment of an atom will have acquired the relativistic mass of a mosquito: the whole beam at full tilt has the momentum of an express train at full speed. A physicist at Fermilab in Chicago has calculated that an apple fired at such velocity would, if it hit the moon, excavate a crater six miles in diameter.

The astonishments of Cern are easy enough to discuss in engineering terms. The science is harder. It invokes physical phenomena that can only have been distinguishable within the first trillionth of a second of time, at temperatures measured in millions of billions of degrees. Words such as unimaginable become standard adjectives in such a world.

The paradox is that mathematical physics has imagined it, and confirmed the accuracy of that imagination to within the first second of time. Physicists call their blueprint of creation “the standard model”. It predicted the Higgs Boson and it links the nuclear and electromagnetic forces, and the particles and waves from which planets, stars, galaxies and people are all composed..."


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Large Hadron Collider Firing Up to Test the Origins of Dark Matter - by Jamie Lendino/ Extreme/ extremetech.com

"Scientists have been trying to unravel the mysteries of dark matter for years. We know it’s there, based on its gravitational pull on visible matter; it seems to have dictated the distribution of galaxies. But we can’t detect it ourselves, because it doesn’t emit radiation, or at least the type we’re familiar with. The 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will soon power up by the end of this month to test a new theory: whether dark matter originates from the Higgs Boson.

The LHC had been powered down since 2012, and has since received $163 million worth of upgrades, according to Scientific American. Those upgrades, including reinforcing the connections between the superconducting magnets around the collider, should enable the LHC to smash particles together at incredible speeds and energy levels never seen before on this planet — up to 13 trillion electron volts (TeV), which is almost twice the level the collider achieved in the past. The higher energy levels will let physicists search for new particles and run tests they couldn’t run before.

All of this could lead to new discoveries..."

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(Image credit: CERN)


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Higgs Boson Could Explain Matter's Dominance Over Antimatter - by Clara Moskowitz/ Space/ News/ ScientificAmerican.com

"A new theory suggests the Higgs field varied in the early universe, offering matter a chance to split off from antimatter

The stars, the planets and you and I could just as easily be made of antimatter as matter, but we are not. Something happened early in the universe’s history to give matter the upper hand, leaving a world of things built from atoms and little trace of the antimatter that was once as plentiful but is rare today. A new theory published February 11 in Physical Review Letters suggests the recently discovered Higgs boson particle may be responsible—more particularly, the Higgs field that is associated with the particle..."

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Computer simulation of particle tracks from an LHC collision that produced a Higgs boson.
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