DOE Science Showcase - Exciting Higgs Boson Research

Image Credit: Claudia Marcelloni, CERN

 

Some of the most exciting research happening in recent decades has been the observation and tentative confirmation of the elusive subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. These findings, produced from one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted, have provided a direction for the exploration and stringent testing of the Standard Model of physics and if it should be changed as well as new research on models of physics beyond the Standard Model.  Read in detail about the Higgs boson experiments, new accelerator designs, and further explorations in Dr. William Watson’s latest white paper In the OSTI Collections: the Higgs Boson.

 

Additional links of interest

 

• What is a Higgs Boson?, Fermilab video    
• How an accelerator works           How a detector works
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory       The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)  
• U.S. Institutions Participating in LHC Experiments and Accelerator
• New Evidence Strengthens Case That Scientists Have Discovered a Higgs Boson, Brookhaven National Laboratory, March 14, 2013
• Future LHC super-magnets pass muster, Symmetry, July 11, 2013
• CERN  experiments put Standard Model to stringent test, Symmetry, July 19, 2013
• Interactions.org, News from the World’s Particle Physics Labs

 

 

Higgs boson research in DOE Databases

 

• Unraveling the Higgs Boson Discovery - Rik Yoshida, ScienceCinema
• National Library of Energy^Beta     
• DOE R&D Accomplishments
• SciTech Connect Database
• Science.gov         Ciencia.Science.gov
• WorldWideScience.org

 

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