Category Archives: Higgs Boson

This is a list of the order of posts to be covered in The Real Higgs OLLI UC Irvine course that I am presenting on February 25, 2013.  We are expecting new LHC results at the Moriond meeting in Italy from March … Continue reading →

The short version of this article is that the two most common pictures of how the Higgs vacuum causes mass are very misleading.  These are the drag or mud picture, and the particle being deflected by a series of Higgs … Continue reading →

In the beginning theory of electroweak interactions and weak isospin, all of the quarks, leptons, Ws and Bº have to be massless to have the weak isospin symmetry.  But the quarks, leptons and bosons have different masses in the real … Continue reading →

[latexpage] We start with the prime weak interaction of the beta decay of the neutron to a proton plus electron plus anti-neutrino, in which we now understand that a down (d) quark (charge -1/3) in the neutron decays to an up … Continue reading →

This is to elaborate the interactions of the Higgs and the Weak Bosons with the quarks and electrons, specified by the concept of a weak isospin analogous to ordinary spin angular momentum.  This article covers the theory of spin angular momentum. Quantum … Continue reading →

A Grand Unified Theory of the weak, electromagnetic and strong color forces can be achieved with the existence of supersymmetric partners to be discovered around a thousand GeV in energy.  (A GeV is around the mass of the proton and … Continue reading →

This is an update on my lifelong learning lectures (OLLI) on the Higgs.  For real experts discussion I refer you to my sources of the lecture by Tom LeCompte at the KITP workshop, and the discussion on Resonaances on Dec. 13, called “Twin … Continue reading →

Lisa Randall has a new, inexpensive and short book (78 pages) on the Higgs discovery called Higgs Discovery.  It is also available in ebook format. Sean Carroll has a book on the Higgs called The Particle at the End of the … Continue reading →

My apologies to Austin Powers for the phrasing.  But the answer is surprisingly yes, but not in a naive way, given that the Higgs field’s non-zero vacuum value gives mass to all of the fundamental particles. The complication comes in that the baryonic matter that we live … Continue reading →