Amazing that so many phenomena that were expected to turn up at colliders, (if they were to turn up at all) eg Majorana fermions, magnetic monopoles, are being discovered in condensed matter systems.
Which makes some sense, I suppose. After all, spontaneous symmetry breaking, sometimes called the Higgs mechanism, was first observed in superconductors, and described by BCS.
As a physics PhD (experimental HEP) with excellent credentials who has been unemployed for a year, I suggest you consider doing work that is a) more practical and b) better-funded. FYI: I know of two other colleuages who are also unemployed for 6+ months, one who soon will be, and one who is selling sporting goods retail.
I'd love to encourage you to follow your dreams, but I've found that advanced degrees in physics don't mean much to non-physics employers.
As a physics PhD (experimental HEP) with excellent credentials who has been unemployed for a year, I suggest you consider doing work that is a) more practical and b) better-funded. FYI: I know of two other colleuages who are also unemployed for 6+ months, one who soon will be, and one who is selling sporting goods retail.
I'd love to encourage you to follow your dreams, but I've found that advanced degrees in physics don't mean much to non-physics employers.
That's the hope. New result from the Tevatron just showed that this thing appears to decay to matter, too (not just gauge bosons) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0512051. It is looking very Standard Model like. An outside hope is that it doesn't couple to leptons. The CMS Higgs to tau tau result hinted as much, but it is very preliminary, unconfirmed by ATLAS. Measuring Branching Ratios (the rates that the new particle decays to different final states) will be a test of how Standard Model-like this new particle is. Here is CMS' paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.7235
Do people distribute their non-free code, which then, somehow bootstraps GPL libraries (from GPL sources)? Would that be compatible with the GPL, or is there a provision against that?
Unofficial calculator of the Higgs boson 95% CL limit on the ratio of observed Higgs production cross section to the cross section predicted by the Standard Model, as well as other statistical quantities (eg P-value, etc). Based on recent experimental data (published, presented at conferences) concerning the Higgs boson from the Tevatron and the LHC experiments.
Which makes some sense, I suppose. After all, spontaneous symmetry breaking, sometimes called the Higgs mechanism, was first observed in superconductors, and described by BCS.