Single proton / Proton Collision
Instead, we’ll be hunting for its decay artefacts, other Standard Model particles like W and Z bosons, quarks and muons. This is a simulation of a single proton/proton collision at the LHC.
It’s actually the simulation of the production of a Higgs particle. Now, the Higgs particle you don’t see, of course. It just decays in a fraction of a second.
But what you do see is the smoking gun, in this case, two very clear red tracks, these two particles here, called muons, that have gone straight out to the very edges of the detector.
And if we see not just one collision like this, but maybe 10, maybe 100, then we’ll have iscovered the Higgs and for the first time we’ll understand the origin of mass in the universe.
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