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"
Albert Einstein’s documents publicly available
Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and most recognized physicists of the 20th century and one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time. His insights have had profound influence on the fundamentals of physics and the way we look at the universe and the nature of space and time. He revolutionized our views of space and time, matter and light, gravitation and the universe as a whole.
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