This Week's Topic:

Higgs Boson

The Higgs Boson, a particle so fundamental some call it 'the God particle'
Higgs Live Blogging 3 - Fundamental Bits To Decrypt The Seminars

[ The first two entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) ]...

Higgs Live Blogging 2 - Observation Versus Discovery: Myths And Truths

This is the second post of a series of blogs that I am writing this morning, July 4th, to describe...

Higgs Boson, Where Is The Queue ?

5.30 AM. Getting in at CERN through the B entrance I see no living soul. "Ha" -I tell myself- "I...

Preparations For The Higgs Seminar At CERN

By now it's been written on so many newspapers and magazines -including Nature (the magazine, not...

A 2.5 Sigma Higgs Signal From The Tevatron !

Robbing the LHC experiments of media attention for 41 hours, the CDF and DZERO experiments are...

Ideas On Higgs Couplings

A very interesting paper appeared one week ago in the Arxiv. It is titled "Higgs Self-Coupling...

Basic Education For Particle Hunters: Significance And Rate Error

I am endlessly amazed by observing, time and again, that even experienced colleagues fall in the...

Higgs Discovery Rehabilitating Despised Einstein Ether

Firm evidence for the discovery of a Higgs particle has now been officially announced. This means...

New ATLAS Limits On Higgs Mass

Much awaited, the results of searches for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider have been...

Notes On Higgs Branching Fractions

In my latest instantiation of the "Guess the plot" series I offered a clipped part of a graph showing...

Will The Standard Model Die By The Hands Of Its Dearest Child ?

A new paper on the ArXiV caught my attention this evening for several reasons. First of all, because...