Higgs boson Definition and 272 Threads

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/29/higgs-boson-rumours-fly-cern-results?newsfeed=true just read this news article and sounds thoroughly exciting. I wanted to know in general exactly gave rise to the idea of the higgs boson imbuing elementary particles with mass. What were the...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/latest-higgs-rumors/ been seeing several recent articles regarding this article this is one of the more recent ones thought you all would be intersted in it

I've been bugged by a question for some time.Everyone talks about the Higgs boson, although no one discovered it yet.My question is how do we know it's a particle?I mean, to me it'd make more sense if it were a wave created at the same time with the Big Bang that gave everything mass or if it...

So how will CERN's LHC produce a Higgs boson I saw a video where a professor said "So you do it by ... using e=mc^{2} ... you collide some protons at huge energies, so that's giving you energy, and that energy gets converted into the mass of all possible new particles that there can be"...

from the little info i have found it i gather we are still looking. where can i find more info? google just brings up wiki and some crap from cnn. i don't know much about it, however i would like to. if it gives other particles mass how can we find it in a particle collider? wouldn't it already...

F=GM1M2/r^2 The force of gravity without mass is 0. Wouldn't this imply that gravitons and higgs bosons come in pairs? Is there any evidence of gravitons and higgs bosons existing only in pairs?

What is the current state of things? Are they fairly confident that the Higgs exist despite more data being needed for the 5-sigma confidence level? Could it still (realistically) turn out to not exist?

How can the Higgs boson induce mass? How can it interact with itself? Is it the only particle able to do so, if yes, why, and if no, what other particles can interact with themselves? As a side thought, is Young's Double Slit Experiment evidence of particles interacting with themselves (the...

Alberto Palma's recent paper Arxiv:1202.0217 says in its conclusions part: "The ATLAS collaboration presents first results of the direct search for the SM Higgs boson decaying to b\bar b. No evidence of the Higgs boson was found in a pp collision data sample of \mathcal L=1.04\ \mathrm f\mathrm...

What is the fundamental rationale for why particles moving through the Higgs ocean would only interact if they are accelerating?

I am trying to figure out how fast the Higgs decays and how far it travels in a detector at the LHC. Figure 2.5 in http://www.hep.lu.se/atlas/thesis/egede/thesis-node14.html gives decay widths of the Higgs as a function of its mass. For a Higgs of 125 GeV, it is 0.002 GeV. Using the...

Would the Higgs boson discovery support a 4-D spacetime model?

Hi all, I have few questions regarding Higgs boson and ether model. I wanted to know :- 1.What if "ether" == Higgs Boson? 2.The experiment done earlier to detect ether around the Earth failed because we don't know how to detect that medium? 3. On the question of "Drag" , Please...

With so much coverage in the press over the seemingly imminent discovery of the Higgs particle, there's one question that never seems to get raised - which more than likely means I've missed something fundamentally simple; so this may be a very short thread! Higgs Boson / Graviton - it may be...

I've recently been told about the higgs boson or "god particle" I've heard it somehow endows particles with their mass, it interacts with the 'larger' (ones with more mass) more than the smaller particles and basically tells them how much mass to have, I am wondering how it does this and also I...

I usually visit this forum as a guest. I am not a physicist but these visits always teach me something and keep me somewhat informed of what goes on in the world of physics. But now I have a question which will probably seem stupid to you all. It is apparent that the Higgs boson plays a most...

okay, i am totally confused (again). i ihave a general understanding that the higgs mechanism is the effect which gives particles mass. the higgs mechanism is determined by the higgs field and mediated by the higgs boson. is that correct so far? now the HLC indicates that it has somehwat...

Firstly, an open statement to everyone in this forum. I am in search of some answers to questions I have so that I may have a better understanding of this research. For this reason I have posted this so that through all of you my lack of education or some may refer to ignorance I may be...

There seem to be a number of news stories coming out about the possibility of an imminent find of the Higgs Boson @ 125-126GeV: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16074411 So what if the elusive Higgs Boson is finally found? Could this somehow enable us to conquer and manipulate...

If the Higgs gives mass, wouldn't the Higgs give gravity too? If it exists that is.

Hi to all, I am an electrical engineer so my knowledge about "heavy" physics is somewhat limited. I like reading about ( only superficially ) this "heavy" physics so I am puzzled about something and I need your help. Is Higgs boson strongly related with Higgs mechanism? We all know that...

Do we already know enough about the Higgs to be certain that we cannot interact with it(i.e. exert any type of control over it, like we can with electrons) or is there room for discovery there? I was just pondering some implications of such an ability, and realized that I don't know if the...

Somehow stumbled across this website Can't tell if it's made by a real physicist as a joke/parody or by someone who was dropped a few too many times. It looks like a lot of effort went into those diagrams though...

The standard model predicts, and relies on, the higgs boson. We have not witnessed it yet, because the energies required to do so were beyond us in the past. Current models predict, however, that (if the Higgs Boson exists) CERN WILL see it. I know its still early, but CERN hasn't turned up...

I read an interesting article http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-does-the-higgs-boson which says that string theory seems to require our world to have a property called supersymmetry and also, I have heard that the supersymmetry requires the eexistence of at least 5 Higgs...

Why must it be a particle? I mean, if sub-atomic particles act as a wave and a particle why can't the higgs? Maybe the only reason we can't detect it is because we're looking for the particle and not the wave? Can someone please elaborate on this.

I vaguely know the Higgs boson and how it possibly explains how mass doesn't dissipate. However, I need a more in-depth explanation, preferably not Wikipedia's, about it. Thank you!

I've read a couple articles about the recent incident at fermilab last week about them overlooking something. The Dzero team found something they missed. Well in the end it is said that the odds of the "god particle" being real have significantly gone down due to the results of this last...

How does moving at near the speed of light affect the geometry of space-time? How does an object increase in mass in relation to its speed? Does this have to with more collisions with the theoretical Higgs boson?

Is the Higgs boson and the Graviton two descriptions of the same thing?

The graviton (spin 2) and the Higgs boson (spin 0) are both involved in gravity. The Higgs carrying mass, and the graviton carrying the gravitational interaction. On the internet I red that a lot of people wonder if there is a connection. In electroweak interaction the forces are carried by...

I saw this paper listed, http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5529 Asymptotically safe weak interactions Xavier Calmet (Submitted on 26 Dec 2010) "We emphasize that the electroweak interactions without a Higgs boson are very similar to quantum general relativity. The Higgs field could just be a...

http://www.higgs-boson.org/ Is it as garbage as it looks?

There was an argument in my Physics II class today over the appropriateness of 'God particle' for the Higgs Boson. I thought it would make some people perceive it incorrectly and it probably overstates the importance of its existence. Do you guys think its offensive that a deity is invoked...

I was reading this book that separated the graviton from the higgs boson. Can I get some help anything works for me.

You'll never believe it, but physicists at the LHC have discovered the Higgs Boson! It has the expected properties, and many physicists say that this proves once and for all the Standard Model. "This truly is a momentous discovery," Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy for the U.S. said. "Now our...

My question is (and it's probably stupid, I'm a layman, please have patience with me): It seems from what I've read that the Higgs boson, if it exists, is very unlikely to have an extremely high mass (above ~500 GeV), and probably has a mass under ~145 GeV. And I know the top quark with a mass...

when is the LHC find out if higgs boson excist?

i know no one has ever seen them before there just a theory but my question is what are they? do they make up quarks to give everything mass or what I am kinds confused.

As a layman, I'm having a problem with understanding the search at LHC for the Higgs Boson. As I understand Einstein, all mass is nothing but energy. In that case, why are we looking for a particle which imbues mass? For example, in Rutherford's experiment, at least in my mind's eye, when...

If I wanted to learn just enough physics and maths to understand the predicted existence of the Higgs boson, how long would that take? (Assuming average undergrad ability). If you view the prediction as the top point of a pyramid of knowledge, how big is that pyramid?

what is the location of the higgs boson?

Perhaps asking this question is like someone who just learned how to add asking about differential equations, but I decided to go ahead and ask it anyway. The reasoning behind the Higgs field and its associated particle makes sense; however, how could physicists possibly predict its mass and...

Hello there. I have a question, or better yet, a proposition on the higgs boson/graviton: would it be possible for these to be one in the same? What I mean by this is that under the assumption that higgs boson does exist (which I agree with) that gravity is then propagated from the boson...

I understand the theory that "forces" as we conceive them are mediated by force particles or force carriers (the gauge bosons: photons for electro-magnetic force, gluons for strong nuclear force and W-Z bosons for the weak nuclear force, ). The analogy to gravity is the graviton. I am not...

A friend just showed this to me and I thought it was neat. There's always been a history of physicists wagering on theoretical or experimental results, but it looks like it has spread to the mainstream. You can bet on whether the Higgs boson will be discovered before the end of the year...

Hey everyone, I'm new here. I'm currently a Grade 12 Student interested in Astrophysics, who has just recently applied to University (in Canada: UBC, UVic, UofT, UWO, Queen's, and York; all for Astrophysics and/or Astronomy, if anyone wants to give me advice on which one to choose, please do...

Premature, I am well aware. However, I was given an assignment to write an experimental procedure for measuring the spin of the Higgs Boson. I've already finished the paper so this isn't homework, but I am curious as to the motivations of my Professor. It is my understanding that the Higgs...

Thanks for everyone's help so far, it's been extemely useful for researching my talk. Whilst doing other research for my talk I came across this on wikipedia: "More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z...