Friday, 6. July 2012

What Can We Do With the Higgs Boson?


It’s going to happen. Someone in your class is going to bring up the Higgs announcement. This is great, it is the start of a discussion that the students started. But what should you talk about?

First some resources. Here are some pretty good links discussing the whole Higgs thing. Some of these are more detailed than others, but they are all nice in their own way.

Cosmic Variance: Higgs 101
Starts With a BANG!: The Biggest Firework of them all: The Higgs!
Quantum Diaries: New baby boson is born, weighing in at about 126 GeV
Galileo’s Pendulum: Higgsdependence Day!
Wired Science: Newly Discovered Particle Appears to Be Long-Awaited Higgs Boson

wired.com

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