Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider confirmed on March 14, 2013, they found the Higgs boson, the particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass.
Richland College's School of Mathematics, Science and Health Professions presents a lecture by Dr. Joseph M. Izen on "The ATLAS Experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, and the Discovery of a Higgs Boson" at 1 p.m. on May 3 in Sabine Hall, Room SH118.
Dr. Izen, physics professor at The University of Texas at Dallas, is part of a worldwide research team collaborating on the ATLAS experiment, one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), world's largest atom smasher, located near Geneva, Switzerland.
Since the Higgs boson's existence was first proposed in 1964, physicists have been searching for the particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass. The Higgs boson is the final missing piece in the so-called Standard Model, which, through more than four decades of experiments, has correctly explained the elementary particles and forces that make up the visible universe.
Compared to other elementary particles, the Higgs boson is massive, so it requires the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the LHC, to generate the extreme level of energy needed to create the particle. Scientists at the LHC confirmed they found the Higgs boson on March 14, 2013.
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