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Well, I found this image on wikipedia, of one way they might be produced at LHC.

Basically, all it said was that they'd have two gluons which would decay into a top and an antitop pair, and those would combine to make a Higgs.
The mass is apparently between 114.4 and 144 GEV (gigaelectronvolt), so… you know, I really don't know apart from that.

Also! At Tevatron, they smashed some protons and some antiprotons together, and although they were looking for the decay into two tau leptons, they saw a little blip on their charts that apparently meant a few particles with mass of 160 GEV were created before decaying into the tau leptons…here is the reference: New Scientist, 2 March 2007.

Re How will they do it? · 2008/02/22 19:37 · Danica Bybell

So, if the higgs is so much bigger than a proton, then how will collisions help to discover it? If the higgs is a fundamental particle (i.e. cannot be broken down), then how can smashing other particles together (that are smaller in mass ) produce it? The energy associated with it would have to be extremely small wouldn't it? Or am I getting all of this completely backwards?


How will they do it? · 2008/02/21 15:04 · Summer Blot


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