“The Muppets” at CERN
I love the Muppets. But then, who doesn’t? Well, this guy doesn’t. Sam the Eagle Or these guys… Statler and Waldorf But everyone else loves the Muppets. Now, since I also love physics I would be remiss...
View ArticleHiggs Boson (or background fluctuation) Glimpsed
A schematic, called a Feynman diagram, of two virtual gluons from colliding LHC protons interacting to produce a hypothetical Higgs boson, a top quark, and an antitop quark. These in turn decay into a...
View ArticleSo What’s Going On With the Higgs This Week?
Tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research The rumour mill has been working overtime with buzz about the upcoming press conference by CERN on Wednesday...
View ArticleMore Higgs Drama Ahead of Announcement
Screenshot of leaked CERN video On the eve of a major annoucnement regarding the hunt for the Higgs boson from CERN, a supposedly secret video of the announcement was leaked earlier today and released...
View ArticleCERN Data Suggest Discovery of Higgs!
An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. So turns out my prediction was wrong. I was predicting that the CERN data regarding the...
View ArticlePhysics Photo Phriday (August 3, 2012)
This week, the manuscripts for papers describing the discovery of a boson, possibly the Higgs, of a mass of around 125 GeV from both the ATLAS and CMS experiments are online. Results of the diphoton...
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