God's particle: The journey



 

Friends have a look at this beautiful journey of the Discovery of the God's particle, the Higg's Boson.

 

The Nobel Prize for Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to Belgian Francois Englert and British Peter Higgs for the theorotical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of the mass of subatomic particles and which was confirmed by the discovery of the fundamental particle by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider 

 

 

Francois Englert
 

Peter Higgs
 

On July 5 2012, Scientists working with the data from the ongoing experiments at the LHC announced the dicovery of a new particle "consistent with" the Higgs boson -- a subatomic particle
also colloquially referred to as the "God particle." After years of design and construction, the LHC first sent protons around its 27 kilometer (17 mile) underground tunnel in 2008. Four years later, the LHC's role in the discovery of the Higgs boson provides a final missing piece for the Standard Model of Particle Physics, a piece that may explain how otherwise massless subatomic particles can acquire mass. Gathered here are images from the construction of the massive $4-billion-dollar machine that allowed us peer so closely into the subatomic world.

Just go through this extra ordinary journey and I know, everyone will appreciate atleast the spirit of hard-work and consistently following one's dreams, if not the physics behind the God's particle. The cpation under each image explains it.

 

Excavation and the Construction in the ATLAS cavern. This cavern eventually housed the ATLAS experiment, part of the LHC at CERN. February 22, 2000.

The huge ATLAS Toroid Magnet End-Cap A is transported between building 180 to ATLAS point 1 on May 29, 2007.

View of the Compact Muon Solenoid cavern with its impressive dimensions: 53 meters long,
27 meters wide and 24 meters high.

In order for technicians to get around the 27-km tunnel that houses the LHC, various methods of transportation were employed. October 24, 2005.

Placing the Tracker inside the Compact Muon Solenoid (the tracker is still wrapped from its transport), on December 14, 2007.

 

View of Compact Muon Solenoid detector assembly in late 2007.

One of the end-cap calorimeters for the ATLAS experiment is moved using a set of rails.
This calorimeter measures the energy of particles produced close to the axis of the beam when two protons collide. It is kept cool inside a cryostat to allow the detector to work at maximum efficiency. February 16, 2007.

 

The first half of the Compact Muon Solenoid inner tracker barrel seen in this image consisting of three layers of silicon modules placed at the center of the CMS experiment. Laying close to the interaction point of the 14 TeV proton-proton collisions, the silicon used here must be able to survive high doses of radiation and a powerful magnetic field without damage. October 19, 2006.

One module of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) photon spectrometer. There are 3,584 lead tungstate crystals on the first module for the ALICE photon spectrometer. Lead tungstate crystals have the optical transparency of glass combined with much higher density and can serve as scintillators, lighting up when struck by an incoming particle.

Integration of the ALICE experiment's inner tracker in 2007.

 

The globe of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, illuminated outside Geneva, Switzerland, on March 30, 2010.

Image made available by CERN shows a typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by red towers) is measured in the Compact Muon Solenoid electromagnetic calorimeter.
The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other particles produced in the collision.
The pale blue volume shows the CMS crystal calorimeter barrel. 
Cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle on July 4, 2012, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson, popularly known as the "God particle", that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.

Incredible!!!
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