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Are Scientists Still Looking for the Higgs Boson?
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RE: Are Scientists Still Looking for the Higgs Boson?
July 17, 2017 at 8:14 am (This post was last modified: July 17, 2017 at 8:50 am by Rhondazvous.)
(July 17, 2017 at 12:20 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I've heard on good authority the Higgs Boson they are looking for is hiding in the bottom of a long forgotten bottle of phlogiston at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago   . . .
Not sure how to work that into my plot. Might be interesting, though.
(July 17, 2017 at 1:37 am)Alex K Wrote: You guys are so silly. The discoveries of the large hardon collider are a very serious topic.
OMG! No he didn't. Yes he did. So this is what has you so excited about your work.
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RE: Are Scientists Still Looking for the Higgs Boson?
July 17, 2017 at 6:23 pm (This post was last modified: July 17, 2017 at 6:27 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 17, 2017 at 1:19 am)Alex K Wrote: In fact, just a couple of weeks ago CERN announced that the interaction of the July 2012 boson with bottom quarks has finally been measured, and has just the expected intensity for a Higgs boson as evidenced by the rate at which the boson is observed to decay to pairs of bottom quarks.

What does this mean? They produced a boson with the same techniques but with new measurement capabilities? I'm confused. And please don't tell me the measurement or anything is 496 something, or I'm officially becoming a numerologist and spending the rest of my life making crayon drawings in a cave.
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RE: Are Scientists Still Looking for the Higgs Boson?
July 17, 2017 at 7:38 pm
(July 17, 2017 at 6:23 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(July 17, 2017 at 1:19 am)Alex K Wrote: In fact, just a couple of weeks ago CERN announced that the interaction of the July 2012 boson with bottom quarks has finally been measured, and has just the expected intensity for a Higgs boson as evidenced by the rate at which the boson is observed to decay to pairs of bottom quarks.

What does this mean?  They produced a boson with the same techniques but with new measurement capabilities?  I'm confused.  And please don't tell me the measurement or anything is 496 something, or I'm officially becoming a numerologist and spending the rest of my life making crayon drawings in a cave.

According to theory, once you make a Higgs boson, it almost immediately decays and can only be sen indirectly via the decay products. It has a better than 50% chance to immediately decay into a b quark and an anti-b-quark. The decays through which it has been discovered ae much rarer. Why didn't experiments observe the Higgs boson through the b anti-b quarks in 2012 you may wonder. That's because b anti-b pairs are produced in huge amounts by other means, completely drowning the ones coming from Higgs decays. So you need lots of precision and good statistics to isolate those.
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RE: Are Scientists Still Looking for the Higgs Boson?
July 18, 2017 at 4:38 am
Guys, I love this vid ... He makes it sound simple ... (Which makes me even more of an idiot for still not understanding! lol.)



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RE: Are Scientists Still Looking for the Higgs Boson?
July 18, 2017 at 4:48 am
PBS Spacetime is a phenomenal programme, both with the old and new presenters. But quite challenging.
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