Melissa Franklin

Helping hunt for the Higgs

For decades, it has been the holy grail of particle physics, an elusive subatomic particle that offered the tantalizing possibility of explaining how much of the universe works. Billions of dollars have been spent in the search for it. Thousands of researchers — including dozens from Harvard — have conducted trillions of experiments as part of the hunt for its telltale signature.

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Helping hunt for the Higgs

For decades, it has been the holy grail of particle physics, an elusive subatomic particle that offered the tantalizing possibility of explaining how much of the universe works. Billions of dollars have been spent in the search for it. Thousands of researchers — including dozens from Harvard — have conducted trillions of experiments as part of the hunt for its telltale signature.

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Posted in CERN, Engineering & Technology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, Harvard, HarvardScience, Higgs, Higgs boson, Joao Guimaraes da Costa, John Huth, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Masahiro Morii, Melissa Franklin, Particle physics, Peter Reuell, Physics, Subatomic particles | Comments Off

Helping hunt for the Higgs

For decades, it has been the holy grail of particle physics, an elusive subatomic particle that offered the tantalizing possibility of explaining how much of the universe works. Billions of dollars have been spent in the search for it. Thousands of researchers — including dozens from Harvard — have conducted trillions of experiments as part of the hunt for its telltale signature.

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Posted in CERN, Engineering & Technology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, Harvard, HarvardScience, Higgs, Higgs boson, Joao Guimaraes da Costa, John Huth, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Masahiro Morii, Melissa Franklin, Particle physics, Peter Reuell, Physics, Subatomic particles | Comments Off