[6] He researches topics in experimental high energy physics, including "Quantum black hole production in proton-proton collisions, Higgs (in beyond the Standard Model Scenarios), triggering at hadron colliders, detectors and electronics for linear colliders, precision electroweak measurements, ATLAS".
It is about half as big as the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and weighs close to 7,000 tons, the same as the Eiffel Tower or a hundred 747 jets.
"[10] Eric Tucker reported, The trigger is a vital component of the ATLAS experiment, an international collaboration involving 2,000 scientists, including a team of UO physicists.
Their work seeks to shed light on such scientific enigmas as the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, black holes and dark matter by smashing together beams of high-energy protons and analyzing the debris.
Whether a breakthrough takes place in two years or by the end of the decade, the answers to the ultimate questions have never been so close at hand.On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments.