Higgsteria
Higgsteria describes the excitement about the Higgs boson that ramped up ahead of the announcement at CERN on 4 July 2012 and the 36th ICHEP conference in Melbourne that follow that followed the event online.[1]
The term was first used in New Scientist in an article by Lisa Grossman (published online first 19 June 2012),[2] while the Wikipedia article (ver. 3 Feb. 2025) on Elizabeth Gibney claims that she dubbed the term in Times Higher Education om 19 July 2012.[3]
References
- ↑ ICHEP2012, 4–11 July 2012, Melbourne, Australia https://pos.sissa.it/174/.
- ↑ Higgsteria as trouble brews for standard model, New Scientist 214, issue 2870, 23 June 2012, page 4.
- ↑ "Research Intelligence - Higgsteria: it's only the beginning". Times Higher Education (THE). 2012-07-19.