On 22nd Feb 2013, IEEE Kochi subsection organized a talk on “Higgs Boson” along with CSI, Cochin Chapter. Mr.Simon Akkara, Vice Chair, IEEE Kochi Subsection welcomed the gathering and introduced the speaker.
Dr.C.P.G.Vallabhan took his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Kerala University and joined the University Centre at Cochin as a lecturer in 1969. He became a Professor of Physics in 1984 and became the Director of the University Science Instrumentation Centre at Cochin University of Science & Technology in 1986 He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Technology (2002-2007), and the Director (2002-2008) of the Centre of Excellence in Lasers and Optoelectronic Sciences (CELOS) at Cochin University of Science & Technology. He has been the Founder Director in 1995 of the International School of Photonics at CUSAT where he is also an Emeritus Professor presently. He is now the President of Kerala Science & Technology Society (India).
The Higgs boson or Higgs particle is a theoretical elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. Experiments to detect the Higgs Boson resulted in the discovery of a new, previously unknown boson during 2012; however contrary to widespread misreporting, the new particle is still being studied as of 2013 to learn whether it is the Higgs boson or not. Confirmation that the Higgs boson exists would be monumental since it would finally prove the existence of the Higgs field.More than 50 years ago Peter Higgs and five other theoretical physicists proposed that an invisible field lying across the Universe gives particles their mass, allowing them to clump together to form stars and planets. Preferably known by its “marketed name”, The God Particle, the Higgs Boson explains why particles have mass – and in turn why we exist.Without the boson, the universe would have no physical matter, only energy.