A portrait of the Higgs boson by the CMS experiment ten years after the discovery · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2207.00043/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA portrait of the Higgs boson by the CMS experiment ten years after the discovery — mentioned by godelskihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935250urn:hackerpapers:mention:2207.00043:36935250Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:54:03 GMT<p>The LHC has multiple teams that will replicate an experiment. The facility is so big that you have different groups. You also have different detectors (such as ATLAS and CMS) where you replicate the experiments because each one has a bit of difference. And except for the very high energy stuff, other labs around the world can reproduce the results. Not to mention that particle physics has a 5 sigma significance threshold... But for a lot of this, what happens is that they make the claim, they contact peers, send out the data, and have their peers confirm. You ever wonder why experiments like…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2207.00043/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-ex