Higgs Boson Part III: How to Discover a Particle
How do you know when you've "discovered" a particle? What do we mean by "discovery"? Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly...
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Suppose you want to discover a particle. First, you need to-Of course! Thanks for walking us through that point, John. If we're honest, we should saythat the mathematical model for the Higgs was discovered in the 1960s, but the particleitself wasn't dis- wasn't confirmed until 2012. In fact, the Higgs boson ISN'T eventhe first new particle to be... "uncovered" at the Large Hadron Collider: the Xi-b particle,basically a heavy version of the neutron, was actually found several months earlier.You probably didn't hear much about it because the Xi-b is just a combination of quarks thatwe already know existÐ so it's not really that exciting. I mean, if you know about cheeseand you know about crackers, t...
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Suppose you want to discover a particle. First, you need to-Of course! Thanks for walking us through that point, John. If we're honest, we should saythat the mathematical model for the Higgs was discovered in the 1960s, but the particleitself wasn't dis- wasn't confirmed until 2012. In fact, the Higgs boson ISN'T eventhe first new particle to be... "uncovered" at the Large Hadron Collider: the Xi-b particle,basically a heavy version of the neutron, was actually found several months earlier.You probably didn't hear much about it because the Xi-b is just a combination of quarks thatwe already know existÐ so it's not really that exciting. I mean, if you know about cheeseand you know about crackers, t...
