Higgs boson Definition and 272 Threads

Sorry in advance for this probably stupid question. If there is entanglement is there not entaglement for all particles. If so, could there not be entanglement for the Higgs boson, and therefore our own gravity, could have an equal and opposite force, both combining for a net effect of...

Hello my name is Jonas. I don't understand what the Higgs-Boson particle is and what its significance is. Could someone explain this to me in laymens terms so I know what I am looking for to do further study on this. Just message me. Thanks and have a good day...Jonas

Why exactly is it that the Higgs field is not considered a fundamental force? Since the Higgs Boson has been confirmed would that not make it a force as it's presence has been confirmed by the discovery of the boson for the field?

I'm a little confused about whether the higgs boson is the mediator of the higgs field. I haven't had a chance to study in depth the higgs field theory, but I have tried finding information from seemingly reliable sources and there are some apparent contradictions. I watched Leonard Susskinds...

I heard from a few sources that the Higgs Boson particle probably doesn't exist, is this true? If so, what does this mean for the Big Bang theory? And how did it start the Big Bang theoretically anyway? If not, what have the scientists at the LHC found? Is it the standard model Higgs, or...

There's a recent (released?) documentary called "Particle Fever" about the search for the Higgs boson. I'm not sure if it's been released yet. Has anyone seen it yet? Some info: Particle Fever editor Walter Murch: 'The Higgs boson is kind of a MacGuffin' David Kaplan Explains why the...

i was just reading a article that said that if the higgs boson is proven for fact, then the concept of the mass effect (spacetime pressure and curvature) would be obsolete. Is this true? i spent so much time teaching my self about SR and GR.

This was released today so I'm not sure if most have seen it yet. It appears that "a" Higgs Boson is confirmed. http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/03/new-results-indicate-new-particle-higgs-boson

Firstly, thank you all for creating this forum, thank you all for tolerating my questions. As an expert in another subject, I know it's not easy to take time out of one's schedule to answer the questions of non-experts, and I am grateful that you guys have. That said, this question is a...

Is Higgs boson a form of energy ? Hello all . We know Higgs boson or Higgs particle is a theoretical elementary particle and in the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a boson with no spin, electric charge, or color charge and it just has mass . So what's the problem when we say they are...

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/18/17006552-will-our-universe-end-in-a-big-slurp-higgs-like-particle-suggests-it-might?lite There are several news sites saying the discovery of the higgs boson indicates that the universe is a 'false vacuum' but they're very light on the details...

Hello all . If there is not higgs boson that mean all elementary particle travel velocity of light through space ?

These are things about the higgs boson that am confused with: 1: how does particle physics explain the weakness of gravity, since higgs is just another force carrier like any other, why is it so weak? 2: how do virtual bosons, popping in and out of existence, exchange between two particles...

How can we propose the existence of a massless graviton when the recent discovery of the higgs boson means that there is a Higgs field that endows everything with mass? Doesn't the higgs field disprove the graviton? In that case, we would now have no idea where gravity fundamentally comes from...

Hi everyone and happy New Year. The Standard Model shows very specific and measurable couplings of the Higgs boson with the W and Z fields. What QUANTITATIVE measurements have been done to verify that these couplings are as predicted? Thanks and looking forward to your replies. A lot of...

Hey, I have the following equation for the renormalised mass of some scalar particle (i.e. Higgs boson) m_{r}^{2}=m_{0}^{2}+\frac{\lambda}{32\pi^{2}}( \Lambda ^{2}-m_{0}^{2}ln(1+\frac{\Lambda^{2}}{\mu^{2}})) Where I have the first order correction to the mass of the loop in a two point...

How is it possible that the Higgs boson interacts with itself? Now that it is almost certainly discovered, how can a particle that gives mass to other particles, give mass to itself? Does it make a 'loop' with other Higgs bosons? How can the Higgs boson interact with other particles in such...

I ran into the following article by Varma, Higgs Boson in Superconductors http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109409 Varma compares the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the Higgs Lagrangian and calculates the elementary excitations. He shows that although symmetry is broken in both cases, Higgs...

Hi; Forgive me if this topic has been covered elsewhere; I'm new here and didn't find an answer to my question by searching the Higgs. With the potential discovery of the Higgs as announced this past July by CMS and ATLAS the one thing that I'm not understanding is why isn't the Higgs...

The top quark has mass around 173GeV. The Higgs boson (probably) has only 125GeV. Why the top quark has been discovered earlier despite it has larger mass? Why did we need more powerful accelerator to detect a lighter particle? Is it possible that there are some other light particles within our...

Why in the standard model doesn't charge need a boson like mass needs the Higgs boson?

Can anybody throw light on the following doubts? 1.what is the implication of the recent discovery of the higgs boson in the quantum physics? Does it support the quantum nature of matter and wave and the uncertainty principle? 2. It is said that Einstein did not accept the quantum theory...

Why does the standard model have a higgs boson quadratic and a cuartic term but it does not have a cubic term? is there any problem if it happens to have a cubic term? Thanks!

Hi all. I have recently read an article that summarizes our knowledge about Higgs boson and the consequences of its existence and of the value of its mass. The author says that our universe could be stable, unstable or metastable and that the discrimination between this three options is give by...

I was thinking, because of the relationship between energy and mass and the mathematics, would it (theoretically speaking, of course) be possible to accelerate the Higgs Boson to the speed of light, reducing its mass value to 0 and converting that mass into energy? I was also wondering if this...

I know that the Higgs boson gives particles their mass. I know that there are two kinds of mass: inertial mass and gravitational mass. I know that the Higgs boson gives the inertial mass, but is there a relationship between it and gravity? If so, what is that relationship? As far as I know...

Hi If the Higgs field is present everywhere then so should be the Higgs Boson right? Then why is a particle accelerator required. Cant it be just detected from around us? Salil

Is the Higgs boson only a particle of pure mass? It has no charge, no spin, no color, no flavor, etc. Does it have any other non-zero characteristic besides just mass?

Real or fake? Since we still know so little about particle physics and related applications the question remains out there. I am curious to know what others think?

what particles?

I know they have been very close to it and seen something similar to the boson but did they actually find it? it's like the media has been blowing it up and saying they found it, but there was not official claim, it was just yeah we spend a garbageload of energy and time trying to find it, we...

If there is not a conservation of mass, then what happens to higgs-bosons? Are they destroyed, or decay into something else (if that is even possible...)?

Hi everybody, let's assume the Higg's boson exists. If I understand String theory correctly (and I understand very little of it), then Higg's particle - just as any other particle - can be expressed as a particular vibration state of a string. If I understand Higg's theory correctly, then...

I don't know much physics so it's not that easy to understand what a Higgs Boson or a Higgs field is. According to Wikipedia, a Higgs field is theorized to be the mechanism for giving elementary particles mass. For a lay-person, this makes me think that a Higgs field is something to do with...

Can someone explain to me in layman's terms why the Higgs Boson needs to be less than 130 GeV to prove Supersymmetry exists?

Does it interact with other higgs bosons? Do they also do the same? It cannot go ad infinitum or can it?

If the Boson Higgs Boson, only exists for a millionth, of a millionth, of a millionth, of a millionth of a millionth, of a millionth, of a millionth, of a second - or even lessera... And all matter has mass because of it... According to my wall clock, this means that several billion...

Could the Higgs boson have been confirmed with earlier accelerators? The LEP collider operated at a maximum of 209 GeV. Could it have been used to confirm the existence of the 125.3 GeV Higgs boson? I also read on Wikipedia that the CERN teams were apparently examining the 145–466 GeV range...

Hey guys, Being interested in science (and living in Switzerland), I've been reading a lot about the Higgs boson in mainstream news. Unfortunately, the best thing I can get out of that kind of report is the overused analogy of some celebrity moving in a crowd. I have practically no...

I tried searching through but didn't find this asked. If the spin of the particle detected at LHC comes back as 2, for instance, does it mean it's not a higgs boson? There are 5 higgs in supersymmetry, do they all have spin 0?

Michio Kaku (see link) says that the Higgs Boson is the reason for the Big Bang. Is that true? I am not initiated enough in cosmology to know if I believe that a Higgs Boson triggered the Big Bang. Thanks...

I want to get caught up in this discovery and of course it would more "legitimate" if I better understood what the standard model is.So I'll ask some slightly random "Yes/No" questions. Are the "Gauge Bosons/Force Carriers" that have mass "supposed to be" mass-less? But from...

In reading through all the info that is coming out from today's big announcement, it seems as they still can't peg the mass of the higgs boson as much of their data comes in the form of decay paths that include neutrinos of unknown mass. My question is whether when they peg the exact mass of...

How can the Higgs Boson have a mass if it's what determines mass? Do we have any insight to why its mass is very large?

From what I understand, the Higgs Boson was the last missing piece of the Standard Model (12 indivisible particles, 4 forces). Now that the Standard Model is complete, has String Theory been disproved? Is there a conflict between the Standard Model and String Theory?

Hi there: I've learned that there's no such thing as gravity, just the curvature of spacetime that makes objects that are close to each other act like it existed. Does Higgs Bossom discovery tell us that there is a gravity force after all?

With the recent experimental evidence that the Higgs boson likely does exist, and that the Higgs field may well be responsible for "giving" mass to all matter, I am curious how we theorize what gives the Higgs particle it's own mass. Warning: I am not a physicist so be gentle :-)

Hi all, I have a couple of noob questions regarding the Higgs Boson (HB) and it's recent "discovery" 1. if the HB is so heavy (I understood it is heavier than a proton) and permeates the universe, why is it so difficult to detect it or produce it ? 2. Why do we have to collide protons...

News just came out from a press conference, that the "god particle", a.k.a, the Higgs Boson has been affirmatively discovered. Analyzing the results of trillions of high energy collisions that took place in particle accelerators, physicists concluded that the higgs boson particle (or a particle...

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/07/higgs-boson-anticipation/ For some reason the Higgs Boson has become famous well beyond those interested in physics. There is a schedule press conference at 9am Geneva at the site of the Large Hadron Collider and it seems that the only discovery warranting...