Just for fun: Rolling in the Higgs

Tim Blais is the theoretical physicist and musician who created A Capella Science. You know that augurs good things. Here’s his first offering: Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody).

For those who wish to follow along, here are the lyrics:

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

Chorus:

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)

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

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

Lyrics and arrangement by Tim Blais and A Capella Science

Original music by Adele.

Hat tip: Not Exactly Rocket Science.