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Large Hadron Collider

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

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Ken Bloom

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

December 7, 2021

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Ilya Kravchenko, Daniel Claes, Frank Golf and Ken Bloom are members of Nebraska’s Department of Physics and Astronomy who collaborate with partners at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. Their work involves CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, an image of which is behind the researchers in this photo.

Husker team takes leading role at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

December 6, 2021

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Ken Bloom

Bloom named fellow of American Physical Society

October 26, 2016

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UNL physicists gear up for upgrades to Large Hadron Collider

October 28, 2015

Rebeca Gonzalez Suare

Postdoc oversees unprecedented collisions at Large Hadron Collider

June 3, 2015

UNL physicists expand roles with reboot of Large Hadron Collider

April 6, 2015

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

On Friday, September 12 at 7:30pm the Chiara String Quartet will perform the first concert of the 2014-2015 Hixson-Lied Concert Series at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Kimball Recital Hall (11th and R Streets).

'Internet2 Day at Nebraska' is Nov. 13

October 31, 2014

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