Higgs Boson Song Composed From Research Data

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Domenico Vicinanza is a particle physicist and a composer. As such, he has written a song whose notes are defined by the data points drawn from the research around the Higgs boson, likely discovered last week by scientists at the European nuclear research facility, CERN, in Switzerland. Domenico Vicinanza tells us how he did it.

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