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Higgs boson

Nebraska physicists (from left) Ken Bloom, Dan Claes and Ilya Kravchenko are members of an international team that earned the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Husker physicists part of international team awarded Breakthrough Prize

April 9, 2025

Science & Technology

Nebraska’s Caleb Fangmeier, a farm kid from Hebron, stayed up until 2 a.m. as an undergraduate to hear the announcement about the discovery of the Higgs boson. He now holds a doctorate in physics and works as a detector lab manager in Jorgensen Hall. His group is building nearly 2,500 particle detectors that will be used when the Large Hadron Collider restarts sometime between 2024 and 2026.

Husker's career shaped by the Large Hadron Collider

May 23, 2022

Science & Technology

Ken Bloom

Bloom talks stewardship of $51M grant, future of particle physics

December 7, 2021

Science & Technology

Ken Bloom

Bloom named fellow of American Physical Society

October 26, 2016

Science & Technology

Dan Claes, professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will present "What the Heck is a Higgs Boson?" at 3:30 p.m. April 8 in the Nebraska Union auditorium.

Nebraska Lecture will examine Higgs boson

March 31, 2015

UNL physicist Aaron Dominguez leads collaboration involving eight universities to upgrade the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector, a key component of the world’s largest physics experiment. The illustration shows an event, captured by CMS in 2012, that provides evidence of the Higgs boson.

UNL leads $11.5M project to enhance atom smasher

July 7, 2014

Physics team assisted Nobel-winning discoveries

October 8, 2013