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Some very basic questions on the Higgs Boson
What exactly is a boson?
Is the Higgs boson the cause of gravity or a result of it? Does the collision of particles at the LHC create a gravity field or waves or somehow interact with the gravity ...
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What's next after Higgs Boson discovery? [duplicate]
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Practical matter of the Higgs-Mechanism
As everybody knows that the Higgs Boson was discovered on July 4th,2012, I am so curious about it.
What are the possible ...
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What if the 126 GeV particle found at LHC that LOOKS like the Higgs is actually not the Higgs Boson?
I am suspicious of the Higgs announcement. Press mania aside, the scientists seem careful to say only that "we've found something which looks like the Higgs Boson".
The difference between ...
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What are the advantages of the ILC over the LHC?
USA Today has an article on Japan's interest as the site for the $10 billion future International Linear Collider. This accelerator will utilize electron/positron collisions (like CERN's former LEP ...
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Which collision energy at LHC is better for hunting 125 GeV Higgs, 7 TeV, 8 TeV or 14 TeV?
Increasing collision energy in hadron collders doesn't always improve the abiilty to hunt down the Higgs. I know that if the Higgs mass is just above LEP exclusion, then even 7 TeV is too high to be ...
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Why search for theoretical particle? [closed]
Just out of curiosity, is there any special purpose in human life, the search for some theoretical particle for its uncertain benefit, to prove theory of everything which doesn't serve any advancement ...
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How should one combine the uncertainties from the ATLAS and CMS measurements?
First off, a naive theorist question - How are measurements divided between the different detectors at the LHC? I would imagine that for a short run time, say, the CMS detector is active and all the ...
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What's the Standard Model width of a 125 GeV Higgs?
There's a fairly broad mass spread in the new results out of Atlas and CMS. I'm curious how this fits with the expected SM width.
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Are there any models for two light Higgs?
The LHC results today seem to have two possible Higgs peaks, one at 119 GeV and the other at 125-126 GeV. All the multi-Higgs supersymmetry models I've seen that have multiple Higgs have only one ...
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Might the LHC see nothing new at all?
There's no guarantee that supersymmetry (or more exotic new physics) will be seen at the LHC. Meanwhile, it's standard lore that a Higgsless standard model becomes nonunitary somewhere in the vicinity ...
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How many $fb^{-1}$ for the most likely $5\sigma$ 115 Gev Higgs at the 7 Tev LHC?
How many $fb^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity at the 7 Tev LHC do physicists expect are needed, to make a $5\sigma$ discovery of the most likey 115 Gev Higgs, if it exists?
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Hawking's alternative to Higgs Boson
I have seen in popular media, claims that Hawking does not believe the Higgs boson exists due to microscopic black holes and even made a bet against it. This is based on something published in ...
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If the LHC doesn't find the Higgs Boson, what would be the implications for the Standard Model?
What would be the implications to the Standard Model if the Higgs Boson hadn't been found with the LHC?
Also, if the Higgs Boson had not been found with the LHC, would it have been successfully ...
