#PETER HIGGS VERIFICATION#
“Symmetries of nature lead to bold predictions by theorists, but it is only through experimental verification that we know the truth about nature,” said Oreglia, who was among the hundreds of experimental physicists who believed in the importance of the Higgs field enough to devote much their careers to the search. Oreglia commented on how this achievement vindicates the modern process of particle physics.
Six UChicago faculty members belong to the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) collaboration, including physics professors Young-Kee Kim, Frank Merritt, David Miller, Mark Oreglia, James Pilcher and Melvyn Shochet. 8 “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.” “I congratulate the whole particle physics community for this achievement.”Įnglert and Higgs were awarded the Nobel on Oct. “It is an honor that the Nobel Committee recognizes these theorists for their role in predicting what is one of the biggest discoveries in particle physics in the last few decades,” said Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer in a statement. UChicago scientists contributed to both collaborations at the LHC. hub for the CMS experiment, and Argonne contributed to the construction and operation of the ATLAS detector. contributes more scientists to the LHC efforts than any other single nation. Department of Energy laboratories-participate in the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN laboratory’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which detected the Higgs in 2012.
Key contributions also came from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, both of which are affiliated with UChicago. The University produced many of the leaders in theory and experimentation whose ideas and instruments shaped the long quest for the crucial particle. Physicists at UChicago and elsewhere chased the elusive Higgs boson for more than two decades. But the discovery of the particle in 2012 also depended on contributions by thousands of scientists around the world, including many with deep roots in the University of Chicago research community. This.The award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics specifically honors the work of theorists Peter Higgs and François Englert, who helped predict the existence of the Higgs boson. The Atlas experiment said: "François Englert and Peter Higgs certainly deserve Professor Jon Butterworth, Head of UCL Physics & Astronomy and member of Has even been used in undergraduate projects. Staff and PhD students are members of the collaboration, and data from the experiment UCL High Energy Physics is heavily involved in the Atlas experiment. UCL also awarded Peter Higgs an honorary doctorate of science in 2010.Īwarded the prize for "the theoretical discovery of a mechanism thatĬontributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles,Īnd which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predictedįundamental particle by the Atlas and CMS experiments at Cern's Large Hadron Remains to this day, now as Emeritus Professor of particle physics. He later became a temporary lecturer in mathematics at UCL, leaving in 1960 to Prize for Physics, for their work in the 1960s that led to the concept of a mass-giving particle now known as the Higgs Boson.Įarly in his career, Peter Higgs undertook a year-long ICI Research Fellowship at UCL. Peter Higgs and François Englert have won the 2013 Nobel
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