Saturday 29 December 2012

The Higgs: My thesis is already out of date

Can't believe I submitted my final thesis corrections a year ago:
https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1435718

A figure I created to introduce the Standard Model is already out of date - well done at the LHC!  Here's a new version including the probable Higgs mass at around 125 GeV/c2:
Figure 1.1: The Standard Model of High Energy Physics. The fundamental particles are shown with their electric charge (top right) and number of color states (top left), where applicable. The circular areas given for each particle are proportional to their respective masses, from the light 0.5 MeV/c2 electron to the heavy 172 GeV/c2 top quark. The photon and gluons are massless. The masses of the neutrinos are currently unknown. The Higgs may have been observed with mass around 125 GeV/c2.