ON 07/27/2011
On the plane back to the US, I put together a couple of answers to very basic questions about particle physics that I often get from friends and acquaintances who know little or nothing about the subject. I hope you find them interesting!
Note also: my previous post repeated a misquote of the CERN director general (thank you readers.) This is now corrected — though the post’s main content is not changed, just clarified a bit.
A decay of a Higgs boson, as reconstructed by the CMS experiment at the LHC
The idea that a field could be responsible for the masses of particles (specifically the masses of photon-like [“spin-one”] particles) was proposed in several papers
ON 04/16/2024
Although I’ve been slowly revising the Higgs FAQ 2.0, this seemed an appropriate time to bring the Higgs FAQ on this website fully into the
ON 04/15/2024
