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Peter Higgs in front of a photograph of the Large Hadron Collider at the Science Museum's 'Collider' exhibition on November 12, 2013 in London, England.On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, Switzerland, when Higgs became an iconic figure in modern science.
In just fractions of a second, that field, the"Higgs field," would find a stable configuration, but in doing so, would breaks its symmetry. This, in turn, gives rise to something called"the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism," which grants mass to the W and Z bosons and solves the discrepancy. This search would warrant the construction of the LHC. At 17 miles long, it is the largest particle accelerator ever built at a cost of around $4.75 billion USD.
A cascade of particles resulting from the decay of Higgs boson particles was created, and was captured by both the LHC ATLAS detector and the Compact Muon Solenoid detector. This was the necessary confirmation for the Higgs field theory. "In professor Peter Higgs, physics has lost a gentle giant of the field," Suzie Sheehy, an associate professor of physics at the University of Melbourne and visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford, said in a press release.
"Higgs' story represents an important lesson for us all about how science works: he would have been the first person to point out that science does not happen on the timescales of a few years," Sheehy said."We need to ensure long-term support for curiosity-driven research if we are to make the kinds of breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe that Peter Higgs is celebrated for.
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