Large Hadron Collider

Why Peter Higgs leaves a huge legacy in the field of physics

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On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs died at the age of 94. It was almost twelve years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a rather inauspicious lecture hall in Geneva, Switzerland, when Higgs became an icon. figure in modern science. That was the day it was announced that collisions between particles … Read more

How the successor to the Large Hadron Collider will hunt for the dark universe

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Plans for the successor to the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are in full swing. The new atom smasher, called the Future Circular Collider (FCC), will dwarf the LHC in size and power. It will fuse particles with so much energy that scientists say it could be able … Read more