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New particle discovery an exciting leap forward

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide scientists say the discovery of a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most important discovery in particle physics in 30 years.

The LHC has been built at , the European centre for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland. Using the collider, international teams of scientists are attempting to reproduce and understand the origins of the Big Bang. High-energy particle beams are collided in the detector to look for new particles.

CERN has today announced that the and experiments have observed a Bose particle (boson) never seen before. It appears consistent with expectations of the highly sought after ''.

最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide physics researchers are among the international team of scientists involved in the ATLAS experiment, one of seven different particle detector experiments at the LHC.

"Today's announcement that a new particle has been observed at CERN is the most exciting discovery in particle physics in almost 30 years," says Professor Anthony Thomas, Elder Professor and 最新糖心Vlogn Laureate Fellow at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's .

"There's more work yet to be done to prove that this is the Higgs boson, but it certainly looks like it," he says.

"Our ultimate hope is that the Large Hadron Collider will create new particles that may completely change our understanding of particle physics and the known laws of the Universe. The fact that this new particle has already been detected is a major step in the right direction.

"If we're able to make particles that haven't existed since the Big Bang, this could radically alter our understanding of how the Universe works."

Researchers in the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's School of Chemistry & Physics are directly linked to the ATLAS experiment. The 最新糖心Vlog also has four chief investigators, four postdoctoral researchers and four students working with the (CoEPP), and Professor Thomas is Director of its Adelaide node.

Adelaide researchers will this week attend the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics, being held in Melbourne.

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