Discovery! The Higgs Boson.

Talk given as a public Christmas lecture in 2012, the year that the Higgs boson was discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. I discussed why we need it, what it does and how it was discovered.

Transcript

2. Daniel Scully University of Warwick
3. The Standard Model
7. Standard Model Gravity Electro-Magnetism Strong Force Weak Force
11. Symmetry
15. Scaling Symmetry
20. Symmetry
21. Amelie Emmy Noether
23. Time Energy
24. Velocity Special Relativity
25. Symmetry & Mass
26. Breaking Symmetries
28. Breaking Symmetries Hiding Symmetries
29. Magnet
30. Magnet
31. Magnet
33. The Theory
34. The Higgs Field
35. Fields Temperature of the Universe Energy in the field
36. Higgs Field Temperature of the Universe Energy in the field
41. Demand Proof.
43. Name The Theory
45. Name The Particle
46. Name the Particle The Higgs Boson
48. Why do physicists call it the God Particle?
49. Why do physicists call it the God Particle? They don't!
51. Discovering the Higgs Boson
55. Super-conducting Super-Collider
56. Super-conducting Super-Collider $2bn (1987) $12bn (1993)
57. The Large Hadron Collider
58. The Large Hadron Collider
59. CERN
60. 17 miles 14 TeV (8TeV)
63. CMS 21.5m Long 15m High 12500 tonnes
64. 40m Long 25m High 7000 tonnes ATLAS
68. Higgs Processes
74. Higgs Processes
75. The Standard Model
76. The Standard Model & the future...
77. MATTER ANTI-MATTER
78. Dark Matter 23%
79. Dark Matter Dark Energy 23% 72%
80. Dark Matter Dark Energy Matter 23% 72% 5%
81. The Standard Model
82. Daniel Scully University of Warwick
84. Billion-Dollar-O-Gram 2009
85. Billion-Dollar-O-Gram 2009
86. The Universe Matter: 5% Dark Matter: 23% Dark Energy: 72% Dark Matter & Energy