Jaideep Singh on LinkedIn: Remembering Peter Higgs and His Pivotal Contribution to Physics: The Higgs… (2024)

From September 13th to 16th, Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski, a member of the Astroparticle Physics group of AstroCeNT, participated in the international #SCALARS2023 conference, which was organized at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw.At the meeting, Dr Trojanowski presented an invited plenary talk about the prospects for new physics searches in the ongoing and future searches in the far-forward kinematic region of the #LHC. This new experimental program aims at precision high-energy neutrino measurements and targets potential light new physics species that could be related to mysterious dark matter.More: https://lnkd.in/dxj8GZ3F#darkwave #H2020 #MAB

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OMG, here comes the end of game big boss of #Exographer : the #HiggsBoson. In our game, you'll have to solve four analyses to defeat him. (For the particle physicists here, they are gamma gamma, 4 leptons, b bbar, and ttH). The fact that you will do that in year 12 of the post-absurd era is not a coincidence ;-) #Exographer was developped at the Science and Videogame academic chair of École Polytechnique, transfered to SciFunGames, and edited by Abylight Studios. Demo is already availble on Steam, link below.

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The Higgs boson discovery confirms the Standard Model, but leaves unanswered questions about dark matter, antimatter, and potential new physics. Thus further exploration and research in particle physics is necessary. Enter bigger, powerful accelerators. Sure very expensive, but space-based particle accelerators in the moon or in zero gravity, could achieve higher energies and better vacuum, thus potentially unlocking new physics discoveries beyond Earth-based limitations.

ALICE collaboration at CERN pays homage to the two towering giants in physics:T. D. Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, alongside Chen-Ning Yang, for their work on parity violation in weak interactions. He is one of the founding fathers of our field.J.D. Bjorken is renowned for the Bjorken scaling phenomenon, pivotal in developing the quark model and QCD. He along with Sheldon Glashow also predicted the existence of a fourth flavor of quark, which they called charm. He worked out the concepts of heavy-ion collisions, i.e. hydrodynamical flow and energy loss in one of the top cited papers in our field.

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Learn more about the history of neutrinos and particle physics research with our Topic Cluster, feat. recordings from Nobel Laureates in Lindau: https://ow.ly/qMJT50PWkVS

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I attended CERN’s CATCH22+2 event celebrating Ireland’s anticipated membership of CERN.The topics of the conference include:• Physics Beyond the Standard Model• Dark matter: theory and experiment• Flavour physics• CP-violation• Inflation• Baryogenesis• LHC and future colliders• Neutrino physics• Axions and axion-like particles• Gravitational waves

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#OnThisDay 14th December in1900, German physicist Max Planck published his groundbreaking study of the effect of radiation on a “blackbody” substance, and the quantum theory of modern physics was born.Through physical experiments, Planck demonstrated that energy, in certain situations, can exhibit characteristics of physical matter. According to theories of classical physics, energy is solely a continuous wave-like phenomenon, independent of the characteristics of physical matter. Planck’s theory held that radiant energy is made up of particle-like components, known as “quanta.” The theory helped to resolve previously unexplained natural phenomena such as the behavior of heat in solids and the nature of light absorption on an atomic level. In 1918, Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on blackbody radiation.Other scientists, such as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, Erwin Schrodinger and Paul M. Dirac, advanced Planck’s theory and made possible the development of quantum mechanics—a mathematical application of the quantum theory that maintains that energy is both matter and a wave, depending on certain variables. Quantum mechanics thus takes a probabilistic view of nature, sharply contrasting with classical mechanics, in which all precise properties of objects are, in principle, calculable. Today, the combination of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity is the basis of modern physics.

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Peter Higgs: Physicist who theorised the Higgs boson has died aged 94See… https://lnkd.in/e5mCJTpe“Nobody took what I was doing seriously ~ Peter Higgs.In 1962, Philip Warren Anderson proposed a mechanism (later known as the Higgs mechanism) to explain the origin of mass. Peter Higgs came up with a solution to this problem. He developed the idea that all the particles were massless when the universe began. However, they acquired mass a fraction of a second later after interacting with a theoretical scalar field. He further postulated that this theoretical field permeates space and gives mass to all elementary subatomic particles interacting with it. Although many other groups simultaneously had also posed similar solutions, none of them predicted the existence of a heavy boson associated with that scalar field like Peter.Finally, on July 4, 2012, CERN announced that the ATLAS and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments had probably detected signs that somehow indicated the presence of an extremely massive particle in the mass region around 126 GeV/c2. This was perhaps the same particle predicted by Peter Higgs about 48 years ago and thus was named after him as Higgs Boson. Eventually, in 2013, the existence of the Higgs Boson was officially confirmed, and the Nobel Prize in physics was jointly awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for their theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.That’s 50 years later.See… https://lnkd.in/exmbB3Uz

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For decades, CU Boulder has been an international leader in quantum physics, and in transforming quantum research breakthroughs into real-world applications!Want to learn more about quantum? Check out the quantum research being done below! ⬇️

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Discovering the secrets of the atoms - Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn won the #NobelPrize in Physics in 1924 for his pioneering work on X-ray spectroscopy. Born on December 3, 1886, Siegbahn made accurate measurements of the X-ray wavelengths produced by different atomic elements, which led to the discovery of new components in spectral lines. Uncover the fascinating history of this revolutionary breakthrough in #PhysicsHistory: https://go.aps.org/47I7FKc.

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