VISAKHAPATNAM : It was a treat for the science students of GITAM University who had an opportunity to interact with Victoria Martin, the researcher at the University of Edinburgh. She was on a visit to the city on Friday.
As a part of British Council public lecture series, GITAM University and the British Council jointly organised a lecture on Science and Beyond. She delivered a lecture on The Higgs Boson: Past, Present and Future. “Higgs-Boson itself may not have applications in daily life, but various new technologies developed as part of this mega project will help common man at large,” said Martin, during her introductory remarks on the Large Hadron Collider and a proposed new collider (CLIC).
She explained how the UK and Indian physicists are collaborating with scientists from across the world to understand the fundamental physics of the universe.
Marin explained the fundamental forces of nature and the interaction of fundamental particles through these forces.
Giving lucid explanations of the production and analysis of the Higgs Boson through experiments at CERN and how her team at ATLAS and other teams at CMS detectors in CERN found the Higgs Boson, verified the predicted God particle, many raised doubts about her research, to know about the collaboration in this mega project amongst thousands of scientists and engineers from various countries, including India and the UK.
The Higgs-Boson, a subatomic particle, was envisioned by Peter Higgs independently by the team of Franois Englert and Robert Brout; and Gerald Guralnik, C Richard Hagen, and Tom Kibble in 1964. This was based on the earlier work of Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.
It was experimentally confirmed at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on July 4, 2012. Englert and Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for this work.