The Higgs boson was recently observed in experiment. Consider two strategies for Higgs production in a high-energy particle accelerator during collisions of proton and antiproton: proton + antiproton -> Higgs.

(a) A moving proton collides with a stationary antiproton,

(b) A proton and antiproton have equal and opposite momenta.

Taking the rest energy of a proton (and antiproton) to be about 1 GeV, and assuming that the rest energy of the Higgs is about 100 GeV, how much energy is required to produce the Higgs in (a) and (b) ?

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