Outline

To start off my paper I am going to write about the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories. It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometers (17 mi) in circumference, as deep as 175 meters (574 ft.) beneath the ground. It accelerates particles at nearly the speed of light around the 27 kilometer circle and Atlas is a super computer that can read the data of the particle collision.

I plan to then go to into a bit of history and write about Peter Higgs and his ideas.

After that I will explain the higgs boson also known as the “god particle”, is the particle that gives matter mass. The higgs boson interacts with the Higgs field and this gives particles mass. The larger the particle the more it interacts with the field and the more mass it has.

I will then relate the Large Hadron Collider to the higgs boson and explain how Albert Einstein’s famous equation of E=mc² ties them together.

Before I conclude the paper I will talk about the impact of finding the higgs boson on modern physics and what it means moving forward in science. Since finding it 2012 revolutionized physicist ideas of the origin of mass.

This is a big topic to write about. I hope the Large Hadron Collider and the facts behind it will keep the reader interested as I explain the history, the higgs boson and the impact of its discovery.