On July 4^th, 2012 a press conference was held at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland heralding extremely strong evidence for a new particle at a mass of  approximately 126 GeV/c² observed both by ATLAS and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. The natural interpretation is that this observed state is the Higgs Boson based on the measurements released today of its decay modes. The Higgs boson gives rise to the mass of the fundamental particles: quarks, electrons, muons,… Ohio State physicists are very excited to have played major roles in this discovery.  

Physicists at Ohio State have spent the last 18 years designing and building hardware for Large Hadronic Collider experiments at CERN as well as analyzing the data once data taking began. Ohio State is the only institution in the United States with faculty members on three of the four LHC experiments. 

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