Hot off my email is an announcement about a Higgs Boson open house being held tomorrow, July 4, 2012 at TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics) situated on the University of British Columbia endowment lands. From TRIUMF’s July 3, 2012 news release,

A new chapter in the global hunt for the Higgs boson, a nearly legendary particle nicknamed the “God particle,” begins tonight [July 3, 2012]. More than 150 Canadian scientists and students are involved in the ATLAS experiment based at CERN’s [European Particle Physics Laboratory] Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. The international teams of scientists will reveal their findings in a press conference simulcast around the world at midnight Pacific Daylight Time on Wednesday morning, July 4.

Several resources are being made available to share explain the
breakthrough.

…  [I’ve removed general information about experts for media interested in getting interviews.]

+ In addition, TRIUMF is hosting a “Higgs Open House” on Wednesday morning, July 4, from 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the main auditorium.  Particle physics scientists and students from SFU, TRIUMF, UBC, and UVic will be on hand to discuss what the results mean and what’s next.  Interactive displays will help visitors learn about the Higgs and understand the key role that Canadians have played in this important milestone.  The general public
including students and the media are all invited.  Advance registration is
not required and there will be professional support to assist with on-site
interviews.

I live the excitement; I just hope this hype lives up to what the researchers at CERN will be delivering. For those who can’t get to a live event, PBS (US Public Broadcasting Service) will be hosting a series of live webcasts, including this one from CERN,

Wednesday, July 4: CERN

Come back at 3 am ET on July 4, 2012 for a live webcast from CERN revealing the latest results in the search for the Higgs boson. A scientific seminar will begin at 3 am ET followed by a press conference at 5 am ET. Stay tuned!

You can go directly to the CERN website yourself. While I found the last announcement quite exciting (excitement by proxy—the physicists were in quite a tizzy [my Dec. 14, 2011 posting]), I’m hoping this time they are able to offer something more substantive.