How is the Higgs boson? What are the applications of its discovery? How can one investigate in the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)? These are some of the questions that a group of Valencian students asked on Friday to young researches on the physics of particles in an encounter where the second anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson was commemorated.
This commemoration is part of the activities organized in the International Conference of High Energy Physisc (ICHEP 2014), the biggest particle physics conference worldly organized which is being celebrated in the Valencian Conference Centre and which has been organized by the Corpuscular Physics Institute (Higher Council for Scientific Research-University of Valencia).
The encounter has taken place in La Nau in the University of Valencia and has been attended by some of the finalist students of the contest launched at the beginning of the year by CERN due to the concession of the 2013 Prince of Asturias Awards in Technical and Scientific Research to the European particle physics lab because of the discovery of the Higgs boson next to two of the theoretical physicists who proposed its existence, Peter Higgs and François Englert. In fact, Englert will be giving the inaugural conference of the ICHEP 2014 next Monday, July 7 in the Valencian Conference Centre.
Students from schools such as IES Jaume II (Alicante), CEIP El Molino (Torrent), CEIP Josep Gil Hervás (Benimodo), IES Huerto de Feliu (Alginet), IES Bernat Guinovart (Algemesí) and Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Carmelitas of Valencia, became finalists in a national level in the contest launched by CERN an which was aimed at acknowledging their valuations on basic science and investigation done by CREN, as well as to motivate the interest for science. Within the attendee there was also Anna Salud Ested Dominguez, from the IES Bernar Guinovart (Algemesi) who was awarded in the Image modality and who visited the CERN in Geneva last spring.
The students have been able to know more details over the discovery of this new particle in the CERN, considered one of the most important scientific milestones of the last half century as well as other factors related with quotidian life in the most famous physics particles lab of the world. The answers have been given by a group of young researches of the Corpuscular Physics Institute (IFC, CSIC-UV) and of the Physics Institute of Cantabria (IFCA, CSIC-UC). Both centers will participate in the two principal experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
Last update: 4 de july de 2014 11:22.
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