Hunting for Higgses

Cosmic Variance
By Sean Carroll
Jul 2, 2012 3:23 PMMay 17, 2019 9:39 PM

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Update: There’s a slightly expanded version of this post on the NOVA website, where I fill in some background on what the Higgs is and why we care.

Greetings from Geneva, where I'm visiting CERN to attend the much-anticipated Higgs update seminars on Wednesday, July 4. We're all wondering whether they will say the magic words "We've discovered the Higgs," but there's more detailed information to watch out for. Hoping for some good book fodder, at the very least. (I personally am not hunting for Higgses, any more than someone who eats at a seafood restaurant has "gone fishing," but you know what I mean.) Remember Higgs 101, and why we need it.

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