As symmetry breaking closes down for its long winter's nap, please enjoy (or at least put up with) a badly adapted holiday song and the chance to reflect on a fascinating year in particle physics:
The Twelve Days of Winter Break: Particle Physics Edition
On the first day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Higgs seminar. Photo: CERN
On the second day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Speeding. Photo: Paul Townsend
On the third day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Wilson Hall as a t. Photo: Fermilab.
On the fourth day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Endeavor. Photo: NASA.
On the fifth day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Lego ATLAS. Photo: Sascha Mehlhase
On the sixth day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
CDF a-bumping
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs with sigmas under three.
CDF bump. Image: CDF.
On the seventh day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
CP violation
CDF a-bumping
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
LHCb detector. Photo: CERN.
On the eighth day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
one Muppet a-meeping
CP violation
CDF a-bumping
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Still image from Muppets movie trailer.
On the ninth day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
Tevatron retiring
one Muppet a-meeping
CP violation
CDF a-bumping
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Tevatron ring. Photo: Fermilab.
On the tenth day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
six neutrinos oscillating
Tevatron retiring
one Muppet a-meeping
CP violation
CDF a-bumping
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Image from T2K experiment.
On the eleventh day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
just-discovered baryons
six neutrinos oscillating
Tevatron retiring
one Muppet a-meeping
CP violation
CDF a-bumping
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and possible Higgs (but not discovery).
Baryons. Image: Fermilab.
On the twelfth day of winter break, I saw in symmetry...
antimatter ATRAP-ing
just-discovered baryons
six neutrinos oscillating
Tevatron retiring
one Muppet a-meeping
CP violation
CDF a-bumping
10,000 Legos
one launching shuttle
top quark asymmetry
faster-than-light neutrinos
and a verdict on Higgs by 2013.
ATRAP experiment. Photo: CERN.
Happy holidays, everyone! See you next year!
