Getting to Higgs

A Higgs Event

Notes:

H and W are short-lived.
Look for accomplices—"daughter" or "granddaughter" particles.

(Note example of data on the right.)

H may decay to 2 b quarks which fragment into 2 B mesons which decay quickly into lots of particles.
Look for jet of particles coming from same point for a B.

W may decay into electron and neutrino or muon and neutrino.

(Neutrinos are "stealth" particles with really light mass. Aren't seen in CDF. Computers calculate "missing neutrino momentum"; indicated with red arrow.)

event
computer-generated data

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