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	Peter Higgs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Higgs is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular.
		This so-called Higgs mechanism predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson.
		Peter Higgs has been awarded a number of prizes in recognition of his work, including the Dirac Medal and Prize for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics from the Institute of Physics, the 1997 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize by the European Physical Society, and the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Higgs (286 words)

	Higgs boson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.
		The Higgs boson was first predicted in 1964 by the British physicist Peter Higgs, working from the ideas of Philip Anderson, and independently by others.
		The particle called Higgs boson is in fact the quantum of one of the components of a Higgs field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Higgs_boson (906 words)

	Higgs boson
		Higgs bosons are hypothetical elementary particles predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
		The Higgs boson, sometimes called the God particle, was first predicted in the 1960s by the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs[?].
		Since the Higgs field is a scalar field, the Higgs boson has spin zero.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Higgs_boson.html (149 words)

	Open Questions: Higgs Physics
		Since the Higgs particle generates the mass of all other particles that couple to it, their mass would depend on their orientation with respect to the Higgs field.) Hence the Higgs particle is a boson, a "scalar" boson, since having spin 0 means that it behaves like a scalar under Lorentz transformations.
		Recall that a basic postulate about the Higgs field was that when the energy of the field is plotted against the strength of the field, the resulting graph has a W shape.
		The Higgs mechanism provides a means of explaining the masses of particles, through their coupling with the Higgs field, without sacrificing mathematical consistency of the standard model.
	www.openquestions.com /oq-ph008.htm (9023 words)

	Higgs
		This mechanism introduces a new particle: the Higgs boson, where "boson" indicates that the intrinsic spin of the particle is an integer; in fact, the spin turns out to be precisely 0, so that often the Higgs is also called the Higgs "scalar", instead of boson.
		So although the particle itself is massless, interaction with the Higgs field makes it behave as if it had mass (this is, by the way, how the problem with the W bosons mentioned earlier gets solved).
		This energy would disturb the continuous Higgs field, and would generate waves (it is a bit like throwing a stone in a lake, to turn the flat surface into a sequence of waves).
	teachers.web.cern.ch /teachers/archiv/HST2003/AskAnExpert/FAQs/Higgs.html (1375 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| 'God particle' may have been seen
		Peter Renton, of the University of Oxford, says the particle may have been detected by researchers at an atom-smashing facility in Switzerland.
		The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass and is fundamental to a complete understanding of matter.
		Enter the Higgs boson, first proposed by University of Edinburgh physicist Peter Higgs and colleagues in the late 1960s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3546973.stm (649 words)

	The University of Chicago Magazine: April 2001, Features
		The source of the gale was none other than the Higgs boson, a piece of subatomic matter that a group of Chicago physicists and several thousand other scientists around the globe have been chasing for their entire careers.
		Named for Peter Higgs, the retired Scottish theorist who proposed its existence in the early 1960s, the Higgs is a hot object of pursuit for experimental physicists because, after so much waiting, finally seeing it in the lab would be the first step toward understanding its nature and properties.
		A Higgs boson is the particle that carries the inertia.
	magazine.uchicago.edu /0104/features/higgs.html (3002 words)

	Europe honours Peter Higgs with prestigious physics award
		Professor Peter Higgs, best known for the particle named after him, the 'Higgs boson', has been honoured by the European Physical Society*.
		Higgs, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, is particularly pleased that Brout and Englert are also being honoured.
		Higgs independently came upon the same idea and, like Brout and Englert, showed how spontaneous symmetry breaking in electroweak theory, could give masses to the weak carrier particles.
	www.cpa.ed.ac.uk /bulletinarchive/1996-1997/11/news/26.html (551 words)

	Higgs: the Velcro Boson
		The Higgs boson is an undiscovered elementary particle, thought to be a vital piece of the closely fitting jigsaw of particle physics.
		The Higgs field enables us to view these apparently unrelated phenomenon as two sides of the same coin; both may be described in terms of the properties of the same vector bosons.
		The Higgs boson’s appendages (hooks and loops) have a directional difference according to the orientation of the particle in the path it is taking.
	robtdwilson.freeservers.com /UFT/3_Higgs.html (6310 words)

	Lorna's Higgs Boson Page!!
		The Higgs boson is a particle or a set of particles that are the carriers of the Higgs field so are responsible for giving other fundamental particles their mass.
		The Higgs boson, sometimes called the God particle, was first predicted in the 1960s by the British physicist Peter Higgs.
		The Higgs mechanism for giving mass to particles was first proposed by Philip Anderson in the context of solid state physics to explain how particle like structures in metals can act as if they had an effective mass.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /ug/kellettl (638 words)

	Higgs boson: Reluctant debutant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Peter Higgs predicted the existence of the particle later named after him over 30 years ago.
		The Higgs boson can be searched for directly, in very high energy electron-positron interactions, or indirectly, through quantum loop effects in which it affects other observable quantities.
		Peter Renton reviews the latest results from both methods and asks, "has the Higgs boson been discovered?" The answer is a definite maybe.
	www.nature.com /nature/links/040311/040311-3.html (114 words)

	Origins: CERN: Ideas: The Higgs Boson
		This clustering effect is the Higgs mechanism, postulated by British physicist Peter Higgs in the 1960s.
		The same might be true in the Higgs field: a particle moving through it creates a little bit of distortion -- like the crowd around the star at the party -- and that lends mass to the particle.
		In fact, the search for the Higgs particle(s) is some of the most exciting research happening, because it could lead to completely new discoveries in particle physics.
	www.exploratorium.edu /origins/cern/ideas/higgs.html (903 words)

	Frontiers - Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University then found a solution, but the cost was to introduce a new 'field', filling all of space, which interacts with particles to slow them down and give them a mass, rather like a spoon feels heavier when it is pulled through treacle.
		This is because the value of the Higgs mass slightly affects that of the W mass.
		Researchers have looked for the Higgs boson at LEP, and it is now known not to weigh less than 114 GeV (the upper edge of the yellow band in the diagram in box 2).
	www.pparc.ac.uk /frontiers/latest/feature.asp?article=14F4&style=feature (1585 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Higgs Boson
		It was dreamt up over 20 years ago by the British scientist Peter Higgs, to explain why other particles possess mass and became an essential part of the standard model of particle physics.
		This cluster is the Higgs particle or Higgs Boson.
		The Higgs boson is such an important part of theoretical particle physics that if it were not discovered then many theoretical physicists would be lost.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A851429 (2113 words)

	Jiggling the Cosmic Ooze: Science News Online, March 10, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Higgs plays such a crucial role in shaping the universe as we know it that it was dubbed the God particle by Leon M. Lederman, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for codiscovering the muon.
		Finally, of all fundamental particles in the theory, the Higgs is the only one devoid of spin, which is a quantum mechanical property analogous to the whirling of a top.
		If the Higgs mass actually is 115 GeV, as the LEP results suggest, the Tevatron will require 2 to 3 years of operation to pile up evidence as convincing as that from the defunct European collider.
	www.sciencenews.org /20010310/bob9.asp (3038 words)

	How Particles Acquire Mass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Higgs boson is a hypothesised particle which, if it exists, would give the mechanism by which particles acquire mass.
		Peter Higgs has a model in which particle masses arise in a beautiful, but complex, progression.
		Higgs found that parameters in the equations for the field associated with the particle H can be chosen in such a way that the lowest energy state of that field (empty space) is one with the field not zero.
	hepwww.ph.qmw.ac.uk /epp/higgs1.html (523 words)

	Physics: Mass, the Higgs boson, and the Higgs field
		The Higgs particle was dubbed "The God Particle" in the title of a book by Dr. Leon Lederman, a Nobel Prize Laureate in physics.
		The godlike importance ascribed to the Higgs particle (or equivalently, the Higgs field) is because the
		In three dimensions, and with the complications of relativity, this is the Higgs mechanism.
	www.p-i-a.com /Magazine/Issue10/Physics_10.htm (925 words)

	New Scientist: Hunting the higgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Higgs particle is the quantum of a new field called the Higgs field, which was zero in the very early Universe, but turned on as the expanding Universe cooled-just as the motion of the Earth emerged when it condensed out of the dust and gas surrounding the early Sun.
		Thus the motivation for proving the existence of Higgs particles is as strong or stronger than ever, and there is very good indirect evidence, and a hint of direct evidence, that they do in fact exist.
		The LHC will cover the whole range of Higgs particle masses up to 200 GeV and far beyond, and should find the Higgs particle, or whatever does the job that it is supposed to do, whether it's the standard model theory of the Higgs particle that proves to be correct or one of its competitors.
	www.umich.edu /~mctp/media/huntinghiggs.html (2299 words)

	Higgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Higgs field is a matrix out here in which the vibration is occuring.
		Higgs imagined a kind of "fluid" which fills the universe and which affects the motion of particles.
		The Higgs field should have a corresponding particle, the Higgs particle or Higgs boson.
	www.normanallan.com /Sci/higgs.htm (131 words)

	What is a Higgs Particle?
		The Higgs particle is as yet a hypothetical particle invoked to explain why the carriers of the electroweak force (the W and Z bosons) have mass.
		Quantum electrodynamics requires the photon to have zero mass (which is good because indeed it does), but early attempts to develop and electroweak theory also required the bosons to be massless, (which is bad because then they would be as abundant as the photon in the universe, which indeed they are not).
		Peter Higgs and two Belgian researchers (who worked independently of Higgs) come across the same idea for settling the puzzle in 1964.
	www.physlink.com /Education/AskExperts/ae304.cfm (358 words)

	HIGGS [ The Centre for Harm Reduction ]
		Peter Higgs has a strong background in community development, having completed a degree in social work at the UNSW between 1984-7.
		Peter has an MA in Asian and International Studies (Footpath Traders in a Hanoi Neighbourhood: A Case Study of Changing Social Relations and Economic Transition, Victoria University of Technology 2000).
		Peter is currently working on a study of HIV among ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users based in Melbourne.
	www.chr.asn.au /about/staff/h/167 (134 words)

	Victoria Miro Gallery: Peter Doig '100 Years Ago'
		Peter Doig has just exhibited alongside Laura Owens and Chris Oifli in a collaborative exhibition CAVEPAINTING at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and a solo exhibition recently toured the Power Plant, Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada.
		Peter Doig was born in Scotland in 1959 and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1966 living in Quebec and Ontario, before returning to Britain in 1979.
		This is the first time Peter Doig and Chris Ofili have had solo shows in London since their respective exhibitions at the Whitechapel and Serpentine galleries in 1998.
	www.artnet.com /event/13974/Peter_Doig_100_Years_Ago.html (549 words)

	Higgs Homepage
		Peter Higgs joined the Department of Teacher Education and Professional Development at Central in the Fall of 1998.
		Higgs has nearly 40 years of teaching and administrative experience in education both in the United States and overseas.
		Higgs has also represented UNESCOs' Director General at a family development conference in Angola and has worked in Botswana and Zimbabwe for the Deutsche Schtiftung fur Internationale Entwicklung (DSE) and for the Helsinki University Knowledge Services (HUKS).
	www.ehhs.cmich.edu /~phiggs/higgs.html (456 words)

	Research News: New Results Change Estimate of Higgs Boson Mass
		Scientists believe that the Higgs boson, named for Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who first theorized its existence in 1964, is responsible for particle mass, the amount of matter in a particle.
		According to the theory, a particle acquires mass through its interaction with the Higgs field, which is believed to pervade all of space and has been compared to molasses that sticks to any particle rolling through it.
		The Higgs field would be carried by Higgs bosons, just as the electromagnetic field is carried by photons.
	www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-Higgs-boson-mass.html (914 words)

	Scientific American: How does the Higgs boson affect string theory? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		If the Higgs boson (named after British physicist Peter Higgs) were discovered, it would actually be one of the most important experimental discoveries of all time, in large part because of the unique role Higgs physics plays.
		The Higgs boson is also a new kind of matter, the first in a century.
		Finding a Higgs boson thus strongly supports the supersymmetric Standard Model, which in turn supports the notion that string theory is indeed the right approach to nature.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000290D2-391C-1C71-84A9809EC588EF21 (765 words)

	Higgs physics at ATLAS
		The solution was provided by Peter Higgs in 1964 who developed a mechanism by which the gauge bosons could acquire mass (consistent with gauge theories) through electroweak symmetry breaking.
		The Higgs boson can be produced in proton-proton collisions via 3 principle channels.Gluon fusion is the process with the highest cross-section for producing the Higgs boson at LHC energies.
		The different characteristics of the decay channels of the Higgs boson provide signatures that a particle detector such as ATLAS should be able to measure, hence giving experimental evidence of whether the Higgs exists.
	www.shef.ac.uk /physics/research/pppa/research/atlas/physics/nuffield/clements_nuffield/higgs.html (532 words)

	Wisconsin team narrows search for Higgs boson (Sep 19, 2000)
		She and members of her group are among those who observed a number of Higgs boson candidates with a mass of roughly 114 GeV (or 122 times heavier than a proton).
		The Higgs boson is named after Peter Higgs, a Scottish theorist who suggested its existence in the 1960s.
		Complicating the hunt for the Higgs boson, however, is the planned closing of the LEP accelerator Oct. 1 to make way for a new accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider.
	www.news.wisc.edu /5316.html (787 words)

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