Literally do it on The Higgs Boson and The Standard Model, I'm doing a similar thing for a competition for UCL and this is mine so far, it basically writes itself and there's a lot about it, but the only annoying thing is sifting through advanced sources and easier to get your head around sources, anyway here's mine so far
The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model
By Aaron Green IntroductionThe following is a story of 12 fundamental building blocks that make up everything that you have ever observed, experienced or heard of and its relationship to arguably the most important and incredible discovery made by physicists of the 21
st century.
It is a story of creation, battle, trial, triumph, success, and pure brilliance, and it all begins with something called The Standard Model, which until a discovery on July the 4
th of July 2012 was made, nearly became a disproven model, but the question is, what is The Standard Model?
What is The Standard Model?Twelve matter particles: 6 quarks; 6 leptons and a group of force-carrying particles to hold them all together. That’s The Standard Model of particle physics.
[1](The Particle at the End of the Universe, Sean Carroll, p.11) The collection of these fundamental particles and the “bosons” that interact with them are responsible for everything you’ve ever experienced, but without the inclusion of a very specific part called “The Higgs Mechanism” none of it would be possible.
Let’s just explain a little bit about those bosons. There’s quite a few of them predicted by The Standard Model. There’s the gluon, which is responsible for the strong interaction, the virtual photon, which is responsible for the electromagnetic interaction (which is probably the one you observe the most in your everyday lives), the W
-, W
+ and Z
0 bosons, which are responsible for the weak interaction, the graviton? (The question mark is because we haven’t really found it yet), which is responsible for gravity and the Higgs boson, but we’ll talk about that one later. These bosons are collectively responsible for every force that you experience in the world, and in actuality, the Universe. Friction as an example, is just