UW Space Place Guest Presentation

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider observe an excess in their data from a new particle consistent with the production of a Higgs Boson. They are acquiring more data from the running of the LHC to establish if this is indeed the Higgs Boson and that we stand at the threshold of a new era of understanding the origins of mass. UW Professor Wesley Smith will describe the Higgs Boson, the significance of this discovery, how it was done and the prospects for the future.