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Nobel Prize for Physics 2013 to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Congratulations to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for receiving the Physics Nobel Prize of 2013, for proposing the Higgs Boson that was announced at the LHC at CERN on July 4, 2012. Francois Englert and Peter Higgs at the Higgs … Continue reading →

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The World of the Higgs – A Talk by Dennis Silverman

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dennis SILVERMAN

I am giving talks called The World of the Higgs to two groups, one at OLLI Cal State University Fullerton on Oct. 10 at 12:30 PM, and the next at OLLI UC Irvine, on Oct. 11 at 1 PM.  The link above … Continue reading →

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US Contributions to the LHC at CERN that Discovered the Higgs Particle

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Symmetry magazine just had an article on the US contribution to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.  The LHC is the colliding proton rings that discovered the Higgs Boson that was announced on July 4, 2012. Of the 6000 … Continue reading →

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Where Our Mass Comes From

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Having begun the Age of the Higgs last year, which gives mass to all quarks and force particles except photons, we might expect that that is where most of our mass comes from. This is not the case, and we … Continue reading →

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The Costs, Uses, Training, and Scientific Contributions of High Energy Physics

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Dennis SILVERMAN

In giving talks about particle physics, I am usually asked what are the practical applications of particle physics.  I often think that the audience is aghast that someone would ask a pure theorist who works only for scientific knowledge, what … Continue reading →

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Update on Higgs Production Analyses from Lepton Photon 2013 and the SLAC Summer Institute

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Dennis SILVERMAN

There are new data analyses from ATLAS and CMS at CERN in the properties of the Higgs Boson and in the search for new particles.  The analyses cover the complete 2011 data set at total center of mass energy of … Continue reading →

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Michael Moe Honored for the Discovery of Double Beta Decay at UC Irvine

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Michael Moe was honored by the American Physical Society with the Tom W. Bonner Prize of 2013 for Nuclear Physics. This is well described at the APS and the UCI School of Physical Sciences. The experiment was carried out by … Continue reading →

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My Talks on Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann to OLLI

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Dennis SILVERMAN

I gave talks on “The Physicists Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann” to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Irvine.  I tried to explain their physics contributions in simple terms and pictures, and show their genius in finding the simple and intuitive … Continue reading →

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