Penn Arts and Sciences Professors and Students Return to Hadron Collider

Four University of Pennsylvania physics and astronomy professors, along with their students and post-docs, will soon be returning to the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to continue their research. They were a vital part of the Higgs boson breakthrough at CERN in 2012.

The Penn contingent consists of Brig Williams, Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics; Joseph Kroll, Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Associate Professors Evelyn Thomson and Elliot Lipeles; a team of four postdoctoral fellows; 12 graduate students; and technical staff.

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