around a giant solenoid magnet that generates a field of four tesla— about 100,000 times the magnetic field of Earth.
PUSHING BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL TO MAKE NEW DISCOVERIES
The current Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes how the universe was created out of basic building blocks of fundamental particles, and provides the rules for how these particles behave through the fundamental forces( strong force, weak force and electromagnetic force). Although the Standard Model is currently the best description that exists of the subatomic world, there are many important unanswered questions.
First predicted in the 1960s, the Higgs boson, sometimes referred to as the“ God Particle,” is one of the cornerstones of particle physics and the Standard Model because it is believed to give mass to very fundamental particles like electrons, which impacts the atom as we know it. At the instant of the“ Big Bang,” nothing had mass, not even the electron. As the universe expanded and cooled down, the Higgs boson’ s interaction with particles is what gave them mass. This means that all other particles got their mass right after the Big Bang.
One of the theoretical founders of Higgs boson over half a century ago was Gerald Guralnik, Chancellor’ s Professor of Physics at Brown University, who was behind the theoretical research that led to its discovery. Current
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