Earlier this Nobel prize for the theoretical discovery of Higgs boson

The Belgian professor Fran lwa ois Englert will receive the Nobel prize for physics for his theoretical discovery of the Higgs boson. CERN confirmed his theory last year with the probable discovery of the particle.

The 80-year-old Englert, electronics engineer and doctor in physics at the French university ULB in Brussels, was awarded the prize together with the 84-year-old Briton Peter Higgs, the namesake of the Higgs boson. Both published in 1964, independently of each other the same theory, that the existence of the ‘Godsdeeltje’ assumed.

For example, the existence of the Higgs boson, for example, demonstrated why photons and electrons do have mass. The Higgs field, that Higgs-bosons as a result, it would be a physical mechanism by which particles their mass from it. Because they both use the same theory suggested, both scientists the Nobel prize, argues the organisation. The two together, they get a cash prize of converted 920.000 euros.

A little more than a year ago, let CERN know the particle is found to have. The discovery of the particle is apparent from analysis of the collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. That particle would, according to the researchers, the langgezochte Higgs-boson. From the results of the CMS team and the Atlas team, the two main detectors of the LHC, would the particle have a mass of about 125GeV. The probability that the observations on coincidence, is due to a significance of 4.9 sigma is only about 0.0001 percent.

Englert got last year the Nobel prize, although he was called as the winner tipped. The discovery of the particle in July last year would be too late.