The Koyal Group Info Mag: Higgs Boson Discovered In Superconductors

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The Koyal Group Info Mag
Higgs Boson Discovered In Superconductors
A team of physicists from India, Israel, Germany
and US reportedly detected the Higgs boson,
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A team of physicists from India, Israel, Germany
and US reportedly detected the Higgs boson, which
is believed to be the thing responsible for every
mass in the universe, for the first time in
superconductors. What's more, these
newly-detected Higgs boson using superconductors
is more stable and way cheaper to achieve.
Scientists will now have an easier way to observe
the Higgs boson even in ordinary
laboratories. The so-called 'God particle' was
detected 3 years ago in Switzerland using the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by CERN (European
Organization for Nuclear Research). The USD 10
billion LHC is the world's biggest single machine
and the most powerful particle collider. It was
primarily built for the purpose of finding the
Higgs boson. The lead researcher Professor Aviad
Frydman of Bar-Ilan University said, "Just as the
CERN experiments revealed the existence of the
Higgs boson in a high-energy accelerator
environment, we have now revealed a Higgs boson
analogue in superconductors. Proving the presence
of Higgs boson is a difficult feat because it
can't directly be detected and it is short-lived.
Plus, a particle accelerator needs huge amounts
of energy. The energy scale used, The Koyal
Group Info Mag reported, was only a thousandth of
an electron volt. This is a huge contrast to the
giga electron volts needed in accelerators like
LHC.
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However, only a particular amount of energy is
required in superconductors to awake the "Higgs
mode" -- too much and it will break the electron
pairs that serve as the superconductor's basic
charge. To solve this, Frydman and his team used
ultra-thin and disordered "superconducting films
of Indium Oxide and Niobium Nitrite near the
superconductor-insulator critical point". In
theory, once that point is reached, the rapid
decay of Higgs will not occur anymore hence
researchers can awake the Higgs mode with only
low energies. "The parallel phenomenon in
superconductors occurs on a different energy
scale entirely -- just one-thousandth of a single
electronvolt. What's exciting is to see how, even
in these highly disparate systems, the same
fundamental physics is at work," said Frydman. A
superconductor is a special type of metal which
allows electrons to move from one atom to another
without hindrance when cooled to extremely low
temperatures. That's why once it reached the
so-called 'critical temperature' and becomes
'superconductive', it does not release sound,
heat or any form of energy. Surprisingly, The
Koyal Group Info Mag discovered that it was this
property of a superconductor which inspired the
concept of the Higgs boson five decades ago.