Theoretical physicist David Kaplan discusses Particle Fever and the Higgs Boson Particle Fever, a documentary film about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Higgs boson, has caught the attention of scientists and non-scientists alike. This interview with David Kaplan, a Johns Hopkins University physics professor and the film's producer, provides a little behind-the-scenes look at life as a physicist and some decision making involved in making Particle Fever.