Browsing: Large Hadron Collider

The winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics owe thanks to faculty and students from Baylor’s department of physics for helping confirm the existence of the elusive Higgs boson particle.

The prize was awarded to Dr. Peter Higgs and Dr. Francois Englert, the two scientists who theorized the existence of the particle back in the 1960s and spearheaded the push for its discovery in July of last year, according to the Nobel Prize’s website.

The Fall Physics Colloquium series continues this afternoon with a lecture about Baylor’s ongoing research at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

A group of Baylor researchers is currently engaged in a high-energy physics experiment taking place at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is a particle accelerator. .