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Time

Friday, 3 May 12:30 pm

Location

Main Lounge Moulton Union

Finding the ‘God Particle’What is the Higgs boson, and why does physics need it?

On MaOn March 14th this year, physicists at CERN announced that a particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest accelerator, is the long-sought Higgs boson, the key to understanding the origin of mass. What does this discovery mean for our understanding of the universe?

Stephen NaculichProfessor of Physics

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