Hunt for the Higgs!

Discover the engaging interactive game at the London Science Museum, where you can hunt for Higgs production events!

Written byJoAnne Hewett
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The London Science Museum has an amusing interactive game which gives us all a chance to hunt for the Higgs. They show you what Higgs production looks like in a collision at the LHC (albeit, via a very limited set of final states - good enough if the Higgs is heavier than about 180 GeV) and they show what a typical uninteresting Standard Model background process looks like. Then they give you a bunch of collisions with the chance to record 5 events in 30 seconds. Are any of the events you chose an actual Higgs event? Mine were, but then this is what I do for a living (well, almost!). The game is a rather simplified version of what life will be like at the LHC, but it's fun.

Click here to play!

Via Kelen Tuttle at SLAC Today.

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