Delivering the Pittcon 2013 Wallace H. Coulter Keynote Lecture on Wednesday, March 20— “How The Higgs Boson Saved Us from a Cold, Dark, Lifeless Universe” — will be R. Michael Barnett. A senior physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Fellow of the American Physical Society,
Barnett is head of the 190-member international Particle Data Group and has written many research papers on the physics that may be found at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Barnett will address the collider and the experiments, and the nature of the Higgs boson. He notes: “While an extremely unusual particle has clearly been discovered, how do we know it is the Higgs boson we predicted? It is important to remember that physicists are aiming to find far more than the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, even extra dimensions of space.”
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