ATLAS experiment

The world is buzzing from the latest news about the Higgs boson. Last Tuesday, scientists at CERN announced that they have made significant progress towards the search of the Higgs boson. Scientists are confident that the progress made will bring them much closer to the discovery by the end of next year. At the Festival Expo, you will have the incredible opportunity to find out first hand from the experts about the details regarding this "God Particle". The Festival is honored to have The Atlas Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (New York University), a research group that works at…

The Weizmann Institute's Prof. Eilam Gross is currently the ATLAS Higgs physics group convener. He originally wrote this piece in Hebrew for the Yediot Aharonot daily. The Best There Is - For Now "The God Particle," as the Higgs boson is often called, comes from the title of the book by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman that deals with the search for the elusive particle. This particle, according to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, is responsible for giving mass to all of the elementary particles in nature. The mass of an electron determines the size of a hydrogen atom; ultimately the size…