BROWN UNIVERSITY
Pursuing New Frontiers in Particle Physics
Research at the Large Hadron Collider
The last five years have seen more monumental discoveries in physics
than the previous fifty. We have witnessed the discovery of gravitational waves,
first predicted by Einstein more than 100 years ago; huge progress has been made
in nuclear fusion, paving the way toward potentially solving clean energy needs; and
2012 saw the discovery of the “God Particle,” discussed later in this article.
For many, the discoveries made in physics as magnetic fields used to steer them, in
laboratories around the world may go order to provide insight into the very nature
unnoticed — and even if noticed, few ever of matter. The world’s largest and most
truly understand their implications. powerful particle accelerator is located near
The people making these headlines include
professors Dave Cutts, Ulrich Heintz, Greg
Landsberg and Meenakshi Narain of Brown
University’s experimental particle physics
group. The professors are stationed at Brown,
a massive upgrade, and restarted in April of
2015.
Research (CERN) and at the LHC Physics tunnel, was created to provide researchers
Center (LPC) at Fermilab, near Chicago, IL, with a view of how the universe was fo