Manuel Aguilar, full member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, reviews a century of fundamental discoveries in particle physics, from the detection of cosmic rays and the identification of new subatomic particles to the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012.
He explains how the combination of theoretical advances, particle accelerators, detection systems and new data acquisition and processing technologies made it possible to build the Standard Model. Aguilar also examines CERN’s decisive role, the contribution of the Spanish scientific community and some of the technological developments arising from this research, while outlining the main challenges facing the discipline in the future.
To mark the 60th anniversary of CERN, the BBVA Foundation and CERN jointly organise the lecture series “The Secrets of Particles: Fundamental Physics in
Manuel Aguilar, full member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, reviews a century of fundamental discoveries in particle physics, from the detection of cosmic rays and the identification of new subatomic particles to the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012.
He explains how the combination of theoretical advances, particle accelerators, detection systems and new data acquisition and processing technologies made it possible to build the Standard Model. Aguilar also examines CERN’s decisive role, the contribution of the Spanish scientific community and some of the technological developments arising from this research, while outlining the main challenges facing the discipline in the future.
To mark the 60th anniversary of CERN, the BBVA Foundation and CERN jointly organise the lecture series “The Secrets of Particles: Fundamental Physics in Everyday Life”. The series aims to bring the benefits of science closer to society, present the current and future challenges of particle physics and showcase the technologies developed at major scientific facilities such as CERN, as well as their impact on innovation and industrial returns.
