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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Sean Carroll

Follow the Higgs search from quantum fields to the LHC's 2012 discovery, then explore what the evidence established and which questions remain.

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14 parts, about 32 minutes to read.

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Sean Carroll
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14 parts
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about 32 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. A Long Wait and a New Particle2 min
  2. Why Search for Another Particle?2 min
  3. The Field Behind the Name2 min
  4. The Particle Inventory2 min
  5. Building Energy for Discovery2 min
  6. A Machine That Had to Recover2 min
  7. Reading Collision Debris2 min
  8. Particles Are Excitations of Fields2 min
  9. A Background That Hides Symmetry3 min
  10. What Counts as a Discovery?3 min
  11. How Results Reach the Public2 min
  12. Who Deserves the Credit?3 min
  13. Beyond the Standard Model3 min
  14. Why Continue?2 min

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