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No, it succeeded in confirming the existence of the Higgs boson. In fact, that's largely the reason Higgs and Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in
by vichu 8y ago
No, it succeeded in confirming the existence of the Higgs boson. In fact, that's largely the reason Higgs and Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
- magicalhippo 8y agoLEP[1] did no such thing, you're talking about the LHC. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Electron%E2%80%93Positron_Collider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Electron%E2%80%93Positro...
- seiferteric 8y agoWow, I misread the OPs comment as the LHC also and thought I was experiencing the mandela effect haha.
- orbifold 8y agoNo the LHC is a Large Hadron Collider, the previous collider was LEP a Large Electron Proton collider. They plan to build a linear electron proton collider similar to SLAC at some point.
- leereeves 8y agoPositron (the antimatter counterpart to the electron) not Proton (the positive particle in the nucleus of ordinary atoms).