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CUNY Institute for Theoretical Sciences: The Higgs Boson

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The Graduate Center, CUNY

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Partner:: CUNY
Location:: The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York, NY
Event Date:: 11.19.12
Speakers:: Kyle Cranmer,; Neal Weiner
Tags:: particle theory; quantum physics

Summary: CUNY's Institute for Theoretical Sciences discusses the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle. In July, researchers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, announced that they found convincing evidence of a new particle called the Higgs boson, using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Sometimes called the "god particle," the Higgs boson is a sub-atomic particle that is a building block of the universe. Kyle Cranmer, Assistant Professor of Physics at New York University, and Neal Weiner, Associate Professor of Physics at New York University, discuss how scientists made the discovery and why it is significant. The NYU Experimental High Energy Physics group has been a key part of a world-wide collaboration in the search for the Higgs boson.

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Kyle Cranmer

Kyle Cranmer is Assistant Professor of Physics at New York University.

Neal Weiner

Neal Weiner received his undergraduate degree in physics and math from Carleton College in 1996, and his PhD in physics at UC Berkeley with Lawrence Hall his advisor. He was a postdoc at the University of Washigton from 2000 to 2004, joining the CCPP at NYU in the fall of 2004. He has broad interests in particle physics and cosmology. His focus is generally on physics beyond the standard model. In this broad field, his work has included studies of extra dimensional theories (large, small, warped and flat), supersymmetry, grand unification, flavor, neutrino mass, dark matter, inflation and dark energy, as well as relationships between the different subjects.

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01 hr 44 min 09 sec

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01.: Introduction

03 min 20 sec

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02.: The Era of Data

02 min 57 sec

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03.: Different Kinds of Laws

09 min 18 sec

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04.: Brief Introduction to Perturbative Quantum Field Theory

07 min 27 sec

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05.: Gauge Theories

04 min 58 sec

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06.: Magnet Analogy to Describe Higgs Boson

05 min 43 sec

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07.: History of the Higgs Boson

01 min 19 sec

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08.: Detecting the Higgs Boson Will Prove Higgs Field Theory

03 min 29 sec

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09.: The Large Hadron Collider

05 min 23 sec

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10.: Probability of Creating a Higgs Boson

04 min 13 sec

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11.: Finding the Evidence Among the Data

12 min 03 sec

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12.: The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe

03 min 19 sec

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13.: Naturalness in Predictions

07 min 01 sec

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14.: Ongoing Searches for More Particles

08 min 21 sec

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15.: Q1: Theories with Other Higgs Particles

01 min 58 sec

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16.: Q2: Two Year Upgrade at LHC

02 min 13 sec

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17.: Q3: Division of Labor Among 3000 Collaborators

02 min 46 sec

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18.: Q4: Dark Matter and Parallel Universes

02 min 34 sec

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19.: Q5: Higgs Field Connection to Gravity

03 min 22 sec

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20.: Q6: Mass and Higgs Field Interaction

02 min 38 sec

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21.: Q7: Momentum and Superconducting Supercollider

06 min 09 sec

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22.: Q8: Applied Physics

03 min 23 sec

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Seeing the First Evidence of the Higgs Boson Particle

04 min 23 sec

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Kyle Cranmer, Assistant Professor of Physics at NYU, explains the expected results of the Higgs Boson experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, and the reaction of the scientists when the data came in.
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