Physics Professor Vivek Sharma Speaks

Thursday, January 27 at 5:30 pm
Natural Sciences Building, 1st Floor Auditorium

The Hunt for the Higgs Boson

In a tunnel 150 meters below the Franco-Swiss border, the world’s most powerful subatomic particle accelerator, the Large Hadron collider, has roared into action. One of the main goals of this proton collider is to finally trap the elusive Higgs Boson, a quantum particle associated with an all-pervading Higgs field hypothesized to explain the origin of mass in our universe. Professor Vivek Sharma, who directs a search for the Higgs will explain how the accelerator works and describe the traps set to discover the Higgs Boson.

Light refreshments will be served following the lecture.

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