The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, came back online after a 3-year break. UT's Peter Onyisi is among the many scientists who rely on the LHC to perform research into the nature of the universe. | via TexasStandard
, an associate professor in the department of physics at UT Austin, is among the many scientists who rely on the LHC to perform basic research into the nature of the universe; he is a member of the ATLAS Experiment, a team that’s using the LHC to explore high energy physics. Listen to his interview with Texas Standard above or read more below.
About 10 years ago, you were part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson particle, using the Large Hadron Collider. Why was this discovery so important, and how are physicists putting that knowledge to work now? Everything in the Standard Model connects in some way to this Higgs boson and the related Higgs field. And not having seen it, we had seen everything else in this picture. We figured, well, this thing works so well. The thing that’s at the core of this, this model must be there or something is really wrong with the models.So with the ATLAS Experiment, we try to answer as many fundamental questions as possible.
So our prime motivator is these theoretical questions about the nature of the universe, indeed. It’s the same kind of world as, you know,"Are there aliens out there?" I mean, the existence of aliens in another galaxy probably doesn’t directly affect us, but it changes the way we look at the world. And, at least for us, understanding the fundamental structure of reality is a pretty exciting thing to go after.
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