The Discovery of the Higgs – The Background
4 September 2012 by Markus Völter, posted in Podcast
This episode wraps up our recent coverage on particle physics by discussing in some detail the recent discovery of a Higgs particle. Our guest in this episode is Kerstin Borras who heads up the CMS group at DESY. We recap the role of the Higgs very briefly, look in some detail at the two detectors CMS and ATLAS, discuss the importance of the famous five sigma and look at the process by which such a discovery is confirmed and (re-)checked.
The recent particle physics episodes: The Standard Model, Neutrinos, Antimatter, and Controlling the LHC Beam.
Links:
- DESY
- DESY CMS group
- Hera H1 Experiment
- The Tevatron
- The CMS Collaboration
- The Standard Model
- Peter Higgs
- Symmetry Breaking
- LEP
- Standard Deviation
- Discovery
- Monte Carlo Method
- Quantum Chromodynamics
- Weak Interaction
- Strong Interaction
- Pixel Detector
- Calorimeter
- CMS Myon Chamber
- Scintillator
- Drift Chamber
- Linac
- SUSY - Supersymmetry
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy
