Yale College seniors led by Yale physicist Sarah Demers spent a summer in Europe searching for subatomic particle collisions that few humans have ever seen.
July 4, 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the announcement during a seminar at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) that the discovery of a new fundamental particle (joining other fundamental particles, such as electrons and quarks
July 4, 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the announcement during a seminar at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) that the discovery of a new fundamental particle (joining other fundamental particles, such as electrons and quarks), called a “Higgs boson,” was confirmed.
Ten years ago, the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle helped make sense of our universe. But in doing so, it unlocked a whole host of new questions.