OSU Physicists are in the news again with regard to the discovery of the Higgs Boson.  The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Peter W. Higgs and François Englert for the discovery of the Higgs boson. The existance of this new particle was first proposed in 1964  by Higgs and Englert along with now deceased colleague Robert Brout.  Now nearly 50 years later their theory was justified when a particle matching the Higgs' description was discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012.

Among the thousands worldwide who labored to design, build and run experiments in search of the Higgs were eight Ohio State physicists along with scores of Ohio State students.

Buckeyes designed and built the electronics that detected the Higgs, crafted the computer algorithms that identified it and rigorously analyzed the data until the announcement could be made last summer that the particle had indeed been found.

The Ohio State faculty involved in the project are:

Stan Durkin, K. K. Gan, Christopher Hill, RIchard Hughes, Harris Kagan, Richard Kass, and Brian Winer.
Emeritus Professor T.Y. Ling spent countless years working on this project as well.

Congratulations again to our faculty, research staff and students for their hard work over the decades to contribute to this monumental scientific discovery deemed worthy of the Nobel prize.

For more information click the following links to the Columbus Dispatch article and the OSU website:

Please read the article on the Arts and Sciences website with quotes from our faculty and more detailed information on what has been happening since the discovery of the Higgs.