In the summer of 2012, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson. The particle describes the missing piece of the puzzle that would give mass to the objects in the universe. Maclean’s Magazine called its discovery “the biggest scientific achievement of a generation.” The particle that was discovered has since been verified as a Higgs Boson, though many questions remain about its nature.
On Saturday, April 13 Carleton’s Thomas Koffas will present an overview of the Higgs Boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider during the plenary at the American Physical Society’s April Meeting. The meeting, which takes place in Denver, Colorado from April 13 until April 16, will gather particle physicists, nuclear physicists and astrophysicists to share new results and insights.
The ATLAS group at Carleton, which includes faculty, research assistants and students, played a key role in the Higgs Boson findings presented at CERN. The group’s original involvement included contributing to the construction of detector components that were shipped to CERN six years ago. These were installed in ATLAS and are now producing data along with the other detectors.
About the American Physical Society
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