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Posted on 06/04/2018 4:23:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Higgs field is like an endless ocean through which all matter swims. Some particles are like sponges and sop up mass as they lumber along, while others are as sprightly as tiny minnows and dart right through.
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"We know that the Higgs interacts with massive force-carrying particles, like the W boson, because that's how we originally discovered it," said scientist Patty McBride ... "Now we're trying to understand its relationship with fermions."
Fermions are particles that click together to form the invisible scaffolding inside atoms. Bosons, on the other hand, are the physical manifestation of forces and perform tasks such as gluing fermions together.
In June 2014, scientists on the CMS experiment published a paper in Nature showing that the Higgs boson has a relationship with fermions by measuring the rate at which it decays into tau leptons, a heavier cousin of the electron. Later, both the CMS and ATLAS experiments found evidence of the Higgs boson decaying into bottom quarks. Now, scientists are tackling its relationship with the top quark.
"The relationship between the Higgs and the top quark is particularly interesting because the top quark is the most massive particle ever discovered," McBride said. "As the 'giver of mass,' the Higgs boson should be enormously fond of the top quark."
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"A top quark decays almost exclusively into a bottom quark and a W boson," Neu said. "The Higgs boson, on the other hand, has a rich spectrum of decay modes, including decays to pairs of bottom quarks, W bosons, tau leptons, photons and several others. This leads to a wide variety of signatures in events with two top quarks and a Higgs boson. We pursued each of these and combined the results to produce our final analysis."
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
I hold the record for the freestyle in the Higgs field.
I get my mass from pizza!
Thanks BenLurkin.
But I do get part of my mass from the hogs:
Mathemagical poppycock.
IS any of this jazz going to yield a 100 mile per gallon auto?
Or anything of practical use?
I would for something simple...
a working FTL drive
a time machine
a **working** plasma power generator.
We’re not all Catholic.
And you thought The Big Bang Theory was just a TV show!
Egads, reading that was hilarious...until I realized I understood what they were talking about.
Then I couldn’t stop laughing.
“Some particles are like sponges and sop up mass as they lumber along, while others are as sprightly as tiny minnows and dart right through. “
Sounds like a .45 vs 9mm debate.
The return of aether?
Heh!
Good thing I changed my mind and waited before posting my first thought...Although I had no pictures of Quark...However I used to have a picture of Jadzia Dax right next to the picture of 7-of-9......Quark was always trying to make her a “bottom quark”...
Cool.
Can you explain it to me? Just imagine you are talking to a liberal arts major. So use lots of of one syllable words.
Already done. The zero point field is the new name for the aether. The increasing energy in ‘it’ is akin to the energy build up when stretching a rubber band ... the latent energy of expansion of the Universe.
Have you read Lisa Randall's book: Knocking On Heaven's Door about the experiment?
Drivel. Give me a billion dollars and tell me what you want me to find - I will find it!
When will entropic balance be achieved? Show all work explaining how you got your result.
Bwahahahahaha ... God says He is spreading the Universe out like a tent ... and He is gonna roll it up someday, He says.
I gets mine from ice cream ... and chocolate.
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