 |
| Higgs Boson popularly known as "God Particle" |
New Delhi: The Higgs Boson experiment at CERN has created a huge buzz
over the past few weeks, but will be even more glorious to known that a group
of 80 Indian scientists are also involved in the research for the ‘Higgs Boson’
(popularly known as 'God Particle').
The group includes 30 Ph.D. students from 8 institutions who
are currently working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment, which is
one of the two experiments that have led the research on the Higgs Boson.
 |
| Physicists working at CERN Headquarters in Geneva [PHOTO:©2012 CERN] |
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, University of Delhi,
Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, National Institute of Science
Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Punjab University, Chandigarh, Saha
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai and Visva Bharati, Santiniketan are among these institutions that are
dignifying the nation’s pride.
Earlier, Indian scientists also participated in the
construction of the massive particle accelerator at Geneva [viz. the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC)], detector system for the CMS Experiment and the LHC Grid
Computing System using which research on Higgs Boson is being carried out.
This research falls in the domain of Particle Physics. It is the Higgs particle
which imparts mass to all fundamental particles in the Universe. With this
finding, therefore, a major milestone in the human understanding of the
fundamental constituents of matter and their interaction will be achieved.
The above information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of
Planning, Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Dr. Ashwani Kumar in a
written reply in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.