Higgs Boson Particle

[Goosemaster]

With regards to the LHC experiments which hope to expose this, it seems that the Higgs Boson approaches 100x the size of the a proton before it disappears. First of all, is that factor correct?

With regards to the mass that would be created, is there anywhere I could find information on what attributes it would exhibit such as how strong the cohesive energy would be?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
With regards to the LHC experiments which hope to expose this, it seems that the Higgs Boson approaches 100x the size of the a proton before it disappears. First of all, is that factor correct?

With regards to the mass that would be created, is there anywhere I could find information on what attributes it would exhibit such as how strong the cohesive energy would be?

Sorry wat?

Are you referring to the expected theoretical mass of the Higgs? Current work puts the expected mass of the Higgs Boson somewhere in the 115-160 GeV range, that is about 122 - 170 times the mass of the proton.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
With regards to the LHC experiments which hope to expose this, it seems that the Higgs Boson approaches 100x the size of the a proton before it disappears. First of all, is that factor correct?

With regards to the mass that would be created, is there anywhere I could find information on what attributes it would exhibit such as how strong the cohesive energy would be?

Sorry wat?

Are you referring to the expected theoretical mass of the Higgs? Current work puts the expected mass of the Higgs Boson somewhere in the 115-160 GeV range, that is about 122 - 170 times the mass of the proton.

that's exactly what I was looking for 😀 DO you have a link for that btw?

In addition, do you have any information on the properties that the Higgs Boson will exhibit?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
With regards to the LHC experiments which hope to expose this, it seems that the Higgs Boson approaches 100x the size of the a proton before it disappears. First of all, is that factor correct?

With regards to the mass that would be created, is there anywhere I could find information on what attributes it would exhibit such as how strong the cohesive energy would be?

Sorry wat?

Are you referring to the expected theoretical mass of the Higgs? Current work puts the expected mass of the Higgs Boson somewhere in the 115-160 GeV range, that is about 122 - 170 times the mass of the proton.

that's exactly what I was looking for 😀 DO you have a link for that btw?

In addition, do you have any information on the properties that the Higgs Boson will exhibit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

 

[silverpig]

Goosemaster man... I thought you'd have been on the internet enough to look at wikipedia first 😛

 

[RESmonkey]

I'm like halfway through The Elegant Universe; is this particle one of the supposed particles possible, but through some cancellation, only the smaller ones ended being abundant?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I'm like halfway through The Elegant Universe; is this particle one of the supposed particles possible, but through some cancellation, only the smaller ones ended being abundant?

Hmm no. Trying to think of what you mean. Can you give more detail? The only such cancellation I can think of is the matter/antimatter puzzle. Matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the early universe but due to some as yet unknown reason there was a small asymmetry in favour of matter.

 

[RESmonkey]

I'm flipping through the book since I lost my bookmark, and I think I found it. Superpartners?


edit = There was also a page (which I can't find) that said that to find some of the heaviest particles (thought to exist because of string theory), you would need huge particle collider, one bigger than our galaxy in radius. Either it was about that, or trying to find/englarge a "string" to detectable size.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I'm flipping through the book since I lost my bookmark, and I think I found it. Superpartners?


edit = There was also a page (which I can't find) that said that to find some of the heaviest particles (thought to exist because of string theory), you would need huge particle collider, one bigger than our galaxy in radius. Either it was about that, or trying to find/englarge a "string" to detectable size.

Well as for the super large particle accelerators that's refering to the releastionship between the power of an accelerator and the length scale down to which it can probe. Most formualtions of string theory posit that strings are on the order of the Plank length 1.6 x10^-35m. In order to achieve energies great enough to probe this length scale would require a particle accelerator something on the order of what you mentioned (the size of the solar system).

Super patterns are a byproduct of Supersymetry. All known particles would end up having a supersymetric counter part. Snutrons, photinos, squarks etc etc... Supersymetry is an integral part of many if not most unification theories.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I'm like halfway through The Elegant Universe; is this particle one of the supposed particles possible, but through some cancellation, only the smaller ones ended being abundant?

Hmm no. Trying to think of what you mean. Can you give more detail? The only such cancellation I can think of is the matter/antimatter puzzle. Matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the early universe but due to some as yet unknown reason there was a small asymmetry in favour of matter.

I think it's important to note that simply, there was an asymmetry. While not incorrect, saying that almost all the antimatter is gone, leaving only regular matter, leads to people thinking "how wonderful! Good thing all that exotic stuff is gone, otherwise I wouldn't be here." Had the other stuff been the stuff that was favored by the asymmetry, we'd be calling that stuff matter, and this stuff which is now here wouldn't be here, and would be referred to as anti-matter.