The God Particle

In 2012, the world’s most advanced science experiment uncovered the signature of the Higgs Boson, the so-called “God Particle” which gives particles their masses. The Higgs was the last of the Standard Model’s particles to be verified experimentally. But far from closing the case, it instead opened a new frontier in physics that today embodies everything we still don’t know about nature’s smallest scales. And so in this video, we will wind back the clock more than half a century, to unravel the history and mysteries of the elusive Higgs Boson.

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SOUNDTRACK:
– “Adega” – CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2faIhMd5GY)
– “Cold Constellations” – Enzo Orefice
– “No Eyes in the Fog” – Enzo Orefice
– “Creepy Dolls” – Efliz
– “Vanished Minds” – CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPQM8Twz5ec)
– “Orbiting Dreams” – Enzo Orefice
– “Sunrise” – Enzo Orefice
– “Parallel Dimensions” – Enzo Orefice
– “Hidden Presence” – Enzo Orefice
– “I Vanish When the Sun Awakens” – CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5fLFlAI0Fw)

Artists:
– Enzo Orefice: https://www.music-bay.net/artists/enzo-orefice/
– CO.AG Music: https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic/videos

FOOTAGE:
Videos and simulations of Particle Colliders are the property of CERN: https://home.cern

The space scenes in this video were captured using SpaceEngine Pro, a virtual universe simulator:

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The stock footage in this video comes from two third party providers, Storyblocks & Adobe Stock. I have Pro redistributable licences for both.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
For this video I went to CERN’s Science Center in Geneva on July 17th. So a lot of the content in this video comes from my own notes from their resources and tours, especially around the historical and LHC section. Other sources and sites I consulted are listed below:

– The Need for the Higgs Boson (CMS): https://cms.cern/physics/higgs-boson

– Detecting the Higgs by its Invariant Mass (CERN): https://home.cern/science/physics/higgs-boson/how/

– 2012 Discovery Announcement (CERN): https://home.cern/cern-experiments-observe-particle-consistent-with-long-sought-higgs-boson/

– Aftermath of 2012 “When Shall We Call it a Higgs?”: https://resonaances.blogspot.com/2013/02/when-shall-we-call-it-higgs.html

– Naturalness vs. Fine Tuning (Symmetry Magazine): https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/fine-tuning-versus-naturalness

– “A Supersymmetry Primer” (Martin, Stephen P., 1997, https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709356)

– High-Luminosity LHC (CERN): https://home.cern/science/accelerators/hilumi-lhc/

– FCC (CERN): https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-collider/

– Higgs Self-Interaction (CERN): https://atlas.cern/Updates/Physics-Briefing/Higg-Self-Interaction

– “Investigating the Near-Criticality of the Higgs Boson” (Buttazzo et al., 2013, https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3536)

CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Standard Model
1:58 The Higgs Field
4:53 The Weak Force Problem
8:12 Early Particle Colliders
12:14 The Large Hadron Collider
14:04 Detecting the Higgs Particle
18:31 Sigma Significance
20:23 Discovery in 2012
23:26 Naturalness vs. Fine Tuning
27:01 Supersymmetry
29:54 Future Colliders
32:05 Vacuum Decay

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