Talk:Higgs boson

Early results from ATLAS

In the following paper, it is shown that ATLAS has excluded the SM Higgs boson with a 95% CL, for the mass range 135-188 GeV. Maybe the graphic should be updated. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.0694v1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.89.141.190 (talk) 16:20, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

The paper cited is not an ATLAS publication but an ATLAS note. If I read it correctly, they claim that the 95% CL exclusion in this range can be obtained with one inverse femtobarn of data (of course only if no signal is seen). This amount of integrated lumi is not yet collected, but will hopefully be reached sometime during 2011. So this is a projection for the future, not an experimental result. If the actual exclusion bound is published, it will be in an actual ATLAS collaboration paper which you will recognize as it will have a zillion names on it. Aknochel (talk)

Now there are five...

BBC News - US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles' -- megA (talk) 09:03, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Don't look for the HB - it's not there

But I tell you what is

Anti-Time

The difference between Time & Anti-Time is the reason we are here - it's the imbalance

Or maybe black magic by the sinister swarthy neighbor chanting all the night? BTW, please sign your posts with ~~~~. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 19:17, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

In Our Time broadcast

BBC Radio 4's In Our Time is a 45 minute discussion programme with three eminent academics in their field, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Each edition deals with one subject from one of the following fields: philosophy, science, religion, culture and historical events. The entire archive going back to 1998 is now available online in perpetuity.

An edition about Higgs Boson was broadcast with Jim Al-Khalili, Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Surrey; David Wark, Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; Professor Roger Cashmore, former Research Director at CERN and now Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.

You can listen to the programme on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y2b7. Request to an editor: would you be able to include this as an external link on the article page?--Herk1955 (talk) 14:59, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

"The God particle"

Placing blame anywhere but on Leon Lederman is ridiculous, including blaming the media! Lederman not only named his book The god particle: if the universe is the answer, what is the question? but being at the time "The world's foremost experimental physicist and Nobel laureate" referred to the particle as the God Particle and even included a quote in the bible: Genesis 11:1-9, the Tower of Babel about mankind dispersing. Finding the "God Particle", he says, would be like undoing the the confusion that followed. Shameless promotion of his book by naming it or not he continued to refer to the Higgs Boson particle in explanation after explanation. i.e. "This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle." There is no need to blame the media for using the name God Particle you should instead blame the physics community. They may claim to hate the term, but they refer to it as such repeatedly when ever they are also in the media. The media can certainly be blamed for many things but attempting to make them the scapegoat for this term is a bunch of B.S. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.17.215.115 (talk) 21:23, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Let's create an "Introduction to the Higgs Boson" article

It's clear from reading the talk page and the archived talk page that this article

a) attracts a lot of non-specialist visitors, and

b) is incomprehensible to the casual reader.

To be honest I'd be impressed if many got past the second sentence. I'm not saying that the article is bad, it's good to provide accurate and detailed information, but we need to provide something for the non-physicists. Given the work physics puts into outreach programs, it's a massive shame for people to hear about the Higgs in the media, come here for information, and then go away having understood nothing of the article.

Hence I suggest an "Introduction to the Higgs Boson" article aimed at non-physicists. Is anyone willing to work on one with me? I'm a physics undergraduate with some knowledge of particle physics, but not a full understanding of the Higgs mechanism: I could write some basics but would need an expert to check it wasn't inaccurate or misleading.--Hermajesty21 (talk) 23:45, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like a good and timely plan. I would be happy to check the technical correctness of your article and contribute some text. Aknochel (talk)