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| Physics Open Night: Hunting for the Elusive Higgs Boson |
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| Start Date: | 9/14/2012 | Start Time: | 7:30 PM |
| End Date: | 9/14/2012 | |
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Event Description
Speaker: Professor Dmitri Tsybychev, Stony Brook University
For many years physicists have proposed that a particle called the Higgs Boson is responsible for generating the masses of all elementary particles. The Higgs Boson is called by some the ultimate elementary particle, by others, "the God particle." On July 4 of this year, CERN scientists announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Geneva Switzerland. Is this the long sought-after Higgs Boson or something else? In this lecture we will explain how the Higgs Boson generates mass and will describe experiments aimed at its discovery and whether the newly discovered particle at CERN fits the bill. |
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