The Higgs: What your tax dollars have taught us about Mass
Paul Tipton, Yale University

Recently the ATLAS and CMS collaborations which operate the large detectors at the large Hadron collider, have announced statistically compelling evidence for a new state with mass of 125 GeV. The production and decay roughly match that expected for the Higgs Boson, one of the last puzzle pieces in the standard model of particle physics. After putting the Higgs search in historical and scientific context, the search and the evidence for the new state will be presented. The search for the Higgs has taught us a few lessons beyond science and those will also be discussed.