This Week's Topic:

Higgs Boson

The Higgs Boson, a particle so fundamental some call it 'the God particle'
Thou Shalt Have One Higgs - $100 Bet Won !

One of the important things in life is to have a job you enjoy and which is a motivation for waking...

The Plot Of The Week - Higgs Decays To Converted Photons

One of the nice things about the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson is that the particle has been...

How To Search For Higgs Boson Pairs ? A Phenomenological Paper From Yours Truly

Working as an experimental particle physicist in a large scientific collaboration, such as the...

New CP-Odd Higgs Boson Results By ATLAS

The paper to read today is one from the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider ...

ATLAS Higgs Challenge Results

After four months of frenzy by over 1500 teams, the very successful Higgs Challenge launched by...

Life After The 125 GeV Higgs: What Is Left Of Two-Higgs Doublet Models

I just read with interest the new paper on the arxiv by my INFN-Padova colleague Massimo Passera...

How The Higgs Became The Target Of Run 2 At The Tevatron

Until the second half of the nineties, when the LEP collider started to be upgraded to investigate...

Status Of The Higgs Challenge

As I reported a couple of times in the course of the last three months, the ATLAS experiment (one...

Does The Higgs Violate Lepton Flavour Number? A CMS Result Tickles Wild Fantasies

Two years have passed since the discovery of the Higgs boson (on July 4th, 2012), and the young...

Higgs Boson Mass: CMS On Top!

A couple of weeks ago I reported here about the new measurement of the Higgs boson mass produced...

The New Higgs Mass From ATLAS: Still Twin Peaks

One and a half years ago ATLAS produced measurements for the Higgs boson mass using their selected...

Why I Am Rooting For Lubos

With still three months to go and 663 teams participating, the Higgs challenge has not even entered...

Nearest Neighbors: An Algorithm You Know

You are the first to arrive to a dinner party and must choose the table where to sit, relying on...

Higgs Classification Challenge Status

I reported here a few days ago about a very nice challenge issued by the ATLAS experiment: find...

Prospects For Measuring Higgs Boson Pair Production

This must be the boosted b-jets season... Just a few days ago I discussed here the nice new observation...

The Plot Of The Week - No Higgs In Top Decays

Now that we know that the Higgs boson has a mass of 125 GeV and displays all the properties that...

A Precise Bound On The Higgs Boson Width

At 125 GeV of mass, the Higgs boson is a very heavy particle; yet its natural width is predicted...

The Quote Of The Week - Higgs On Anderson's Role In The Higgs Mechanism

"During the years 1962 to 1964 a debate developed about whether the Goldstone theorem could be...

The Hunt For The Higgs

Last Tuesday I was in Mantova, a pleasant little town in northern Italy, rich of monuments and...

The Quote Of The Week - Philip Anderson, Against HEP

"We haven't the foggiest idea what drives the new high-temperature superconductors, or what makes...