Source: Yahoo News
Higgs Boson to the World Wide Web
The world’s biggest atom smasher, where monumental discoveries such as the detection of the once-elusive Higgs boson particle and the creation of antimatter have occurred, is celebrating its 60th anniversary today (Sept. 29).
Founded in 1954, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, located near Geneva on the French-Swiss border, contains some of the largest and most advanced particle accelerators in the world.
In honor of the lab’s anniversary, here are a few of the greatest discoveries made at CERN over the past six decades. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Little Particles in Nature]
September 29, 2014- the 60th Anniversary of CERN
1. The ‘God particle’
The physics world erupted in excitement in July 2012, when scientists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN announced they had detected a particle that looked to be the so-called Higgs boson……………..
2. Weak neutral currents
In 1973, one of the first major discoveries came out of CERN: the detection of so-called weak neutral currents, inside a device called the Gargamelle bubble chamber. ………….
Theoretical physicists Abdus Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg predicted weak neutral currents in the same year that scientists at CERN confirmed these currents’ existence. The theorists were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work in 1979.
3. W and Z bosons…………..
4. Light neutrinos………………
5. Antimatter……………..
6. Charge parity violation……………
7. World Wide Web………………
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