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Nature Podcast

Higgs boson at 10: a deep dive into the mysterious, mass-giving particle

Nature Podcast

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News, Science, Technology

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this Podcast Extra, Nature's Lizzie Gibney and Federico Levi take a deep-dive into the Higgs boson, describing their experiences of its discovery, what the latest run of the Large Hadron Collider might reveal about the particle's properties, and what role it could play in potential physics beyond the standard model.


Nature News: Happy birthday, Higgs boson! What we do and don’t know about the particle

Nature Editorial: Particle physics isn’t going to die — even if the LHC finds no new particles


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0:00.0

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1:04.3

Hi, Benjamin here.

1:07.8

Welcome to this podcast Extra.

1:09.8

We've got an extended version of a chat my colleagues had

1:12.8

on the last episode of the Nature podcast. They are Lizzie Gibney, a senior reporter for nature,

1:18.2

and Federico Levy, a senior physics editor for the Nature Journal, who were discussing the 10th

1:23.5

anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle central to the standard model,

1:29.8

which is physicists' best description of the elementary subatomic particles

1:33.8

and the fundamental forces between them that make up the universe. So its discovery marked a

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