O que é todo esse falatório sobre o Bóson de Higgs?
A comunidade dos físicos está agitada com a possibilidade de uma partícula fundamental prevista pelo altamente bem sucedido Modelo Padrão de física de partículas possa ser encontrado em breve pelo Grande Colisor de Hádrons (LHC) do CERN na Europa.
O termo bóson se refere a um tipo de partícula fundamental com semelhanças ao fóton, enquanto Higgs é uma referência a Peter Higgs, um físico entre outros que publicaram pesquisas prevendo o mecanismo através do qual tal partícula poderia atuar.
Este desenho animado exlica de forma engraçada, mas em datalhes impressionantes, por que o bóson de Higgs é esperado, e um método que está sendo usado pelo LHC para encontrá-lo.
Embora haja rumores sugerindo que traços preliminars do bóson de Higgs já estão sendo encontrados, mesmo que esta partícula incomum não seja encontrada, o processo abriria as portas a uma nova compreensão fundamental sobre como o universo funciona.
What is all this fuss about the Higgs boson?
The physics community is abuzz that a fundamental particle expected by the largely successful Standard Model of particle physics may be soon be found by the huge Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Europe.
The term boson refers to a type of fundamental particle with similarities to the photon, while Higgs refers to Peter Higgs, a physicist who among others published research predicting the mechanism through which such a particle might act.
The above animated cartoon explains in humorous but impressive detail why the Higgs boson is expected, and one method that the Large Hadron Collider is using to find it.
Although some rumors hint that preliminary traces of the Higgs boson are already being found, even not finding this unusual particle would open the door to a new fundamental understanding of how our universe works.
The physics community is abuzz that a fundamental particle expected by the largely successful Standard Model of particle physics may be soon be found by the huge Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Europe.
The term boson refers to a type of fundamental particle with similarities to the photon, while Higgs refers to Peter Higgs, a physicist who among others published research predicting the mechanism through which such a particle might act.
The above animated cartoon explains in humorous but impressive detail why the Higgs boson is expected, and one method that the Large Hadron Collider is using to find it.
Although some rumors hint that preliminary traces of the Higgs boson are already being found, even not finding this unusual particle would open the door to a new fundamental understanding of how our universe works.
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