Half a day is an eon in the world of High Energy Physics, that is, Particle Physics.
Around twelve hours ago we had reported in the post called Higgs or No Higgs, about a bump seen the the CDF collaboration of Tevatron, Fermi Lab, Chicago, USA. In that post we had two or three links related to this possible finding. By now there are nearly twenty links relevant to this news, every one saying his or her bit. One might get the feeling that alright just give me a summary. Well nearly everybody starts his post by giving a summary. Let us try our luck.
(1) Peter W. Higgs is from University of Edinburg. (Wikipedia, His Home Page)
(2) He proposed a mechanism that gives mass to some elementary particles called gauge bosons. It is called Higgs mechanism.
(3) For this mechanism one requires a new particle that has been named the Higgs particle.
(4) Similar mechanism gives mass to other particles also. Thus people say that Higgs is the source of all mass.
(5) There are many people who had the same or similar ideas at around the same time. And they wrote papers also. Because of this the same mechanism is also called Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism or Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism, or Anderson–Higgs mechanism.
(6) Predicting the mass of a particle is big thing in High Energy Physics. If you can do that most people will start saying that you deserve a Nobel Prize. (This is paraphrasing late Professor KVL Sarma of TIFR, Mumbai.)
(7) Higgs discovery has the same status. It is amongst the last piece of the beautiful edifice of High Energy Physics called the Standard Model. It should fetch Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize.
(8) Hence the excitement in the cosmos (we mean the universe, that is, the world) about a bump found at Tevatron.
(9) We got the hint that there might be something new at Tevatron as found by the research group CDF from this post at UH/LHC Blogs.
(10) And the rest, as they say, is the history.
(11) This was the paper, still a preprint, that started it all.
(12) We like the discussion at the Collider Blog so here is the relevant link.
(13) If you are fond of getting your dose of news from Google then here it is. Courtesy Lubos Motl.
(14) Here is the take by the last mentioned. Nobody ignores his opinion though he is not a paper publishing physicist for some time.
(15) What is our (Alig's) stake in the excitement? We already told you.
(16) Tommaso Dorigo is a blogger whom every body approaches for the insider news.
(17) Sean Carroll gives his perspective at that powerful blog.
(18) A person with a pseudonym Jestor usually gives very entertaining and perceptive summary of the most relevant things. He obliges here.
(19) We already have mentioned the blog Not Even Wrong. It has a perspective (not technical ) summary here.
(20) The first paper explaining the results came after 21 minutes of the release of data.
(21) It turns out that the excitement in fact was about a new particle called Z-prime, not Higgs. The latest is that it is not so. In other words there is no signal for a new particle.
(22) So there is no show, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Come back later.
Around twelve hours ago we had reported in the post called Higgs or No Higgs, about a bump seen the the CDF collaboration of Tevatron, Fermi Lab, Chicago, USA. In that post we had two or three links related to this possible finding. By now there are nearly twenty links relevant to this news, every one saying his or her bit. One might get the feeling that alright just give me a summary. Well nearly everybody starts his post by giving a summary. Let us try our luck.
(1) Peter W. Higgs is from University of Edinburg. (Wikipedia, His Home Page)
(2) He proposed a mechanism that gives mass to some elementary particles called gauge bosons. It is called Higgs mechanism.
(3) For this mechanism one requires a new particle that has been named the Higgs particle.
(4) Similar mechanism gives mass to other particles also. Thus people say that Higgs is the source of all mass.
(5) There are many people who had the same or similar ideas at around the same time. And they wrote papers also. Because of this the same mechanism is also called Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism or Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism, or Anderson–Higgs mechanism.
(6) Predicting the mass of a particle is big thing in High Energy Physics. If you can do that most people will start saying that you deserve a Nobel Prize. (This is paraphrasing late Professor KVL Sarma of TIFR, Mumbai.)
(7) Higgs discovery has the same status. It is amongst the last piece of the beautiful edifice of High Energy Physics called the Standard Model. It should fetch Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize.
(8) Hence the excitement in the cosmos (we mean the universe, that is, the world) about a bump found at Tevatron.
(9) We got the hint that there might be something new at Tevatron as found by the research group CDF from this post at UH/LHC Blogs.
(10) And the rest, as they say, is the history.
(11) This was the paper, still a preprint, that started it all.
(12) We like the discussion at the Collider Blog so here is the relevant link.
(13) If you are fond of getting your dose of news from Google then here it is. Courtesy Lubos Motl.
(14) Here is the take by the last mentioned. Nobody ignores his opinion though he is not a paper publishing physicist for some time.
(15) What is our (Alig's) stake in the excitement? We already told you.
(16) Tommaso Dorigo is a blogger whom every body approaches for the insider news.
(17) Sean Carroll gives his perspective at that powerful blog.
(18) A person with a pseudonym Jestor usually gives very entertaining and perceptive summary of the most relevant things. He obliges here.
(19) We already have mentioned the blog Not Even Wrong. It has a perspective (not technical ) summary here.
(20) The first paper explaining the results came after 21 minutes of the release of data.
(21) It turns out that the excitement in fact was about a new particle called Z-prime, not Higgs. The latest is that it is not so. In other words there is no signal for a new particle.
(22) So there is no show, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Come back later.