Summary of Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?

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In this video, physicist Peter Higgs discusses the potential for the Higgs boson to lead us to dark matter. He explains that the Higgs boson doesn't have any charge, which excludes particles with electrical or color charge, and that it also excludes photons due to their lack of interaction. He goes on to say that there are two neutral bosons left in the standard model, the Z boson of the weak force and the Higgs. He explains that if the Higgs does decay into dark matter, we can detect this by using a law of physics known as conservation of momentum. However, the error bars on this measurement are still large, so we need to watch more Higgs bosons decay in order to confirm the finding.

• 00:00:00 The discovery of the Higgs boson ten years ago in the Large Hadron Collider was a major breakthrough in the field of particle physics. However, there are still many unanswered questions about the standard model and dark matter, which may be solved by studying the Higgs. So far, indirect detection methods have not found any evidence for the existence of dark matter.
• 00:05:00 In this video, the physicist behind the Higgs Boson, Peter Higgs, discusses why the Higgs might lead us to dark matter. He states that because the Higgs doesn't have any charge, it excludes particles with electrical or color charge, and that it also excludes photons due to their lack of interaction. He goes on to say that there are two neutral bosons left in the standard model, the Z boson of the weak force and the Higgs. He explains that if the Higgs does decay into dark matter, we can detect this by using a law of physics known as conservation of momentum. He goes on to say that because the Higgs is created in the LHC, it has the best chance of leading us to dark matter.
• 00:10:00 The video discusses the potential for the Higgs boson to lead us to dark matter. Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS experiment have been adding up the outgoing transverse momentum for many, many events, and the results may reveal that the Higgs is decaying into new invisible particles. If this number holds up, it would be a sign that the Higgs is decaying into new dark matter particles. However, the error bars on this measurement are still large, so we need to watch more Higgs bosons decay in order to confirm the finding.