Musings on how science is really carried out.
- Why the Tevatron is so busy with hints of new physics: Thoughts on what happens when experiments come to an end. (7/20/11)
A Higgs particle is produced in a proton-proton collision at center, and decays to two photons (particles of light, indicated by green towers) in an LHC detector. Tracks emerging from center are from remnants of the two protons.
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