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CR E AT I NG VA LU E FROM K NOW L EDGE

Higgs Boson Discovery:

What part did UCD play in the particle puzzle?

In 2012, research organisation CERN announced the
discovery of the Higgs Boson, a missing particle in the
model of physics that describes matter in the universe.
This has been heralded as the world’s most important
physics discovery in 80 years and is the culmination
of 50 years of experimental searching.

UCD were the only Irish University involved in the
discovery of Higgs at CERN. Professor Martin Grunewald
developed the real-time filtering algorithms that found
the Higgs Boson on the CMS experiment at CERN.
Dr Ronan Mc Nulty’s group made the first measurement
of the Higgs on the LHCb experiment at CERN.

Chemistry tackling climate change
Climate Change; the greenhouse effect:
Climate change is one of the most significant and
challenging issues currently facing humanity. Increased
levels of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide CO2,
increase the amount of energy trapped in the atmosphere resulting in increased temperatures, melting of
snow and ice and rising global average sea-level.

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