Category Archives: Higgs Hunting

Live Blog: Webcast from Moriond Electroweak

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Stephen Sekula

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Six Months Later

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Stephen Sekula

It’s been a while since any of us in the SMU ATLAS group have posted. It’s been a busy six months since the announcement of a new particle discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. … Continue reading →

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What do you do the day after?

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Stephen Sekula

So . . . what do you do the day after the major discovery of a new subatomic particle? You get to work. This thing isn’t going to measure its own properties, you know. 🙂 If you don’t feel like … Continue reading →

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Live Blogging: Release of ATLAS and CMS Higgs Searches with 2011 and 2012 LHC Data

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Stephen Sekula

This is the stub for the live blogging of the CERN Seminar on ATLAS and CMS Higgs search results. SMU post-doctoral scholar Aidan Randle-Conde and I intend to wake up very early on the morning of Jul 4 in order … Continue reading →

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Live blogging of Tevatron Higgs Seminar

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Stephen Sekula

While I am not at Fermilab (or even in the US) right now, I will try to live-blog the Fermilab Tevatron Higgs seminars today at 9am US Central Time (4pm CET). The link to the live stream is here: http://vms-db-srv.fnal.gov/fmi/xsl/VMS_Site_2/000Return/video/r_live.xsl … Continue reading →

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Different perspectives on this week’s Higgs results seminars

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Stephen Sekula

This is going to be a BUSY week for particles physics news. Here is some information to help you follow along with the multiple Fermilab and CERN Higgs search seminars this week. Fermilab will release their Higgs search results using … Continue reading →

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A Surge of Seminars; Spying Mount Higgs?

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Stephen Sekula

One of my colleagues jokingly referred to July 4 as “Higgsdependence Day.” Of course, the Americans in my circle of colleagues find it both fun and frustrating that the big CERN seminar (announcing the state of ATLAS and CMS searches … Continue reading →

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From CERN TV: “Are we there yet on the search for the Higgs boson?”

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Stephen Sekula

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9VyT5zevc CERN TV touches on the current rumors running around about the seminar on July 4, and contrasts that with the more careful and deliberate research of the physicists.

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The Summer of LHC

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Stephen Sekula

This summer has the potential to be among the most exciting in particle physics in quite some time. Why? Recall that last December, the ATLAS and CMS Experiments both unveiled their results in the search for the Higgs Boson [1]. … Continue reading →

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