Multimedia
Collision images:
- Higgs decaying to ZZ
- Higgs decaying to γγ
- Assorted
- Rendered in Sketch-Up
Photos:
- 4 July 2012 seminar
- 4 July 2012 press conference
- Seminar + press conference
- Seminar webcast at ICHEP
- CMS and ATLAS presenting results at ICHEP
Videos:
- What is a Higgs boson? (Fermilab video on YouTube)
- The basics of the Higgs boson (Ted-ED video on YouTube)
- The Higgs Boson Explained (PHD Comics video on Vimeo)
- Animated event displays
- CMS Spokesperson Joe Incandela giving an update about the discovery (CERN video on CDS)
- CMS Spokesperson Joe Incandela giving an update about the discovery (CMS video on YouTube)
- Life at CMS – Unblinding, top-up and seminar (YouTube)
- Life at CMS – Combining CMS and ATLAS Higgs searches (YouTube)
Articles for the General Public
What is the Higgs boson? and other questions:
- About the Higgs boson
- Why would I care about the Higgs boson?
- Blinding and unblinding analyses
- Ten things you may not know about the Higgs boson (Symmetry Magazine)
- Higgs boson: explain it in 60 seconds (Symmetry Magazine)
CMS Experiment's results:
- Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV –– Multiple languages (This links to a lot of material that I'm also linking to individually below.)
- Highlights from HCP and Moriond –– EWK, QCD (check under the Higgs section, which includes short updates on each of the Higgs search results).
- Related: New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson (CERN Update)
CMS Higgs results
Relevant papers:
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
- Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV
- Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs