Update from CERN: The Higgs at Last?

Steven Nahn, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physics, Massachusetts Inst of Technology, works on the Higgs project at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He visits with Science for the Public to bring an update about the exciting discovery this summer of a Higgs-ish boson, the target of a decades-long search. He also gives some background about matter, mass, and the analysis of collider data. The Higgs was predicted years ago, but its mass is such that only a collider with the force capability of the CERN Large Hadron Collider can produce it.