On July 4, 2012, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle, the Higgs boson, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), an accomplishment comparable to landing on the moon.
Join us to celebrate this triumph!
Carleton’s Physics Professors Thomas Koffas, an experimentalist working on the LHC’s ATLAS experiment, and Heather Logan, a theorist working on Higgs physics, will explain how the Higgs boson generates mass and will describe its experimental discovery in which Carleton University physicists played a key role.
When: 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 11, 2012
Reception to follow
Where: Kailash Mital Theatre, Carleton University
Free Admission
For additional information: http://physics.carleton.ca/events/12/physics-public-lecture-discovery-higgs-boson-mystery-mass-revealed
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