There's a collider
under Geneva
Reaching new energies
that we've never achieved before
Finally
we can see with this machine
A brand new data peak
at 125 GeV
See how gluons
and vector bosons fuse
Muons and gamma rays
emerge from something new
There's a collider
under Geneva
Making one particle
that we've never seen before
The complex scalar
Elusive boson
Escaped detection
by the LEP and Tevatron
The complex scalar
What is its purpose?
It's got me thinking
We could have had a model
Without a scalar field
But symmetry requires no mass
So we break it
with the Higgs
Baby I have
a theory to be told
The standard model used
to discover our quantum world
SU(3), U(1)
SU(2)'s our gauge
Make a transform
and the equations shouldn't change
The particles then must all be massless
Cause mass terms vary
under gauge transformation
The one solution
is spontaneous
Symmetry breaking
We could have had a model (Particle breakthrough, at the LHC)
Without a scalar field (5-sigma result, could it be the Higgs)
But symmetry requires no mass (Particle breakthrough, at the LHC)
So we break it, with the Higgs (5-sigma result, could it be the Higgs)
Roll your vacuum to minimum potential
Break your SU(2) down to massless modes
Into mass terms of gauge bosons they go
Fermions sink in like skiers into snow