Tag: ATLAS

Higgs @ Ten: UW–Madison physicists’ past and future roles

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Ten years ago, on July 4, 2012, the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN — including many current and former UW–Madison physicists — announced they had discovered a particle that was consistent with predictions of the Higgs boson. In the ten years since, scientists have confirmed the finding was …

Study of high-energy particles leads PhD student Alex Wang to Department of Energy national lab

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This story, by Meghan Chua, was originally published by the Graduate School In 2012, scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced they had observed the Higgs boson particle, verifying many of the theories of physics that rely on its existence. Since then, scientists have continued to search for the properties of the Higgs boson and …