A short history of the Higgs Boson. From a tenth of a billionth of a second after the Big

Bang, through the discovery at CERN,

to a DataCite DOI

September 19th, 2013DataCite Summer Meeting 2013 | Washington DC

Salvatore.Mele@CERN.ch

How many librarians in the room?

…IT?

… scientists?

…funding agencies?

Head of Open Access at CERN

Once upon a time…

…the L3 detector at CERN LEP accelerator.

mass

10-10 sA tenth of a billionth of a second

Higgs field

Peter Higgs, circa 1964

ed.ted.com/lessons/the-higgs-field-explained-don-lincoln

ed.ted.com/lessons/the-higgs-field-explained-don-lincoln

1964

Beatles land at JFK, for 1st US tour

Cassius Clay claims heavyweight title

Martin Luther King awarded Peace Nobel Prize

A short history of the Higgs Boson. From a tenth of a billionth of a second after the Big

Bang, through the discovery at CERN,

to a DataCite DOI

10’000+ scientists and engineers, 85 countries, 20+ years

LHC: largest scientific instrument ever built, 16.7mi

1.9°K: colder than space; 99.999999% of speed of light

Four “detectors”: big “digital cameras”

Big as Notre Dame

Heavy as the Tour Eiffel

100 million “sensors”, 40 million pictures/second

Welcome to CERN

Keep a few 100 events/second

A special snowflake, in a snowstorm, over a snow field

About 100PB(=100’000TB) on tape at CERN

Analysis on the LHC Computing Grid

Hardware installation and maintenance

Cabling

Run the detector, 24/7

Debugging software

Discussions

Leave no stones unturned

Welcome to CERN

July 4th, 2012

article2899 authors

references

the end of the beginning

Experimental physicists

Theoretical physicists

One difference: data!

Is that really the Higgs boson?

Are there any others? Any extra dimensions?And more universes?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37665276@N00

A short history of the Higgs Boson. From a tenth of a billionth of a second after the Big

Bang, through the discovery at CERN,

to a DataCite DOI

cds.cern.ch/record/1405411/files/ARCH-WWW-4-010.pdf

cds.cern.ch/record/1405411/files/ARCH-WWW-4-010.pdf

Which was the first web site in the U.S. ?

SPIRES: the first web site in the U.S.(and the first database on the web)

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 17:55:53 GMT+0100From: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)Subject: WWW to SPIRES on SLACVM - ExperimentalTo: www-interest@cernvax.cern.ch, www-talk@cernvax.cern.ch

There is an experimental W3 server for the SPIRES High energy Physics preprint database, thanks to Terry Hung, Paul Kunz and Louise Addis of SLAC. It's only just been put up, so don't expect perfection. With the w3 line mode browser, follow a link to it from our home page,

- Tim

Paul Kunz wrote a few days ago:-

"The SLAC Library maintainer of SPIRES databases, Louise Addis, is absolutely delighted. She will ask for a permanent VM service machine and finish off the polishing. Things are really moving now.”

Make them happy

Help him find that paper

1m records, half a century

of HEP

500k Open Access papers

20m citation triples

>20k disambiguated

authors

Fast

Clean

Complete

>50k users (all HEP

folks)

>2 searches/second

Content

1/3 of the community & 1/10 of the papers

2/3 of the community & 9/10 of the papers

Listen

Work together

http://doi.org/10.7484/INSPIREHEP.DATA.RF5P.6M3K

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