Peter Ware Higgs, the physicist born on 29th of May 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, to whom the Higgs boson owes its name, published the papers in 1964 which resulted in a 50 year long search for this elusive particle.
The Higgs boson was finally discovered with the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.
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Higgs boson search at the LHC
One of the main motivations for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator at CERN, was to search for evidence of the Higgs field and the Higgs boson. Continue reading "Higgs boson search at the LHC"