Tag Archives: Higgs

The Standard Model at Fifty

Posted on 17/08/2018 by

At the beginning of June 2018, I gave an (academic) talk on the discovery of the Higgs boson at a meeting at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) to celebrate fifty years of the Standard Model – the SM@50. … Continue reading →

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Two quarks for Muster Higgs

Posted on 23/07/2018 by

Since the big discovery of 2012, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been accumulating data and making steady progress. Two recent results establish the origins of the mass of the two heaviest quarks At the Guardian.

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Getting to the bottom of the Higgs boson

Posted on 10/07/2017 by

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Is the Standard Model isolated?

Posted on 12/03/2017 by

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How to hide a ‘fifth force’ – and how to find one

Posted on 04/12/2016 by

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Think of the universe as a skateboard park: Supernovas and sphalerons

Posted on 08/11/2016 by

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Could the Higgs boson have been discovered by accident?

Posted on 18/09/2016 by

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Is this the plot with the most physics?

Posted on 11/09/2016 by

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First particle-beams of 2016 in Cern’s Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 25/03/2016 by

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How the Higgs boson is born and how it dies: the most precise picture so far

Posted on 20/09/2015 by

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