Matthew LeBlanc Wins the TRIUMF Summer Research Award
Acadia Physics Double major, Matthew LeBlanc, wins the TRIUMF Summer Research Award for the Atlantic Region.
SUCCESS AT LAST! The Large Hadron Collider just got its first physics data at the record-breaking collision energies of 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam). That marks the start of the LHC research programme.
This is a great time to be a particle physicist. One of our own, Acadia student Matt LeBlanc, will be spending a part of this summer in Geneva doing research at CERN.
Matt will be working on the "ATLAS at the CERN Large Hadron Collider Project". Matt will help to "re-discovered" the known Standard Model particles like top quark.
In several months, the LHC will be ready to look for the truly new physics, like the Higgs boson and Dark matter particles. The press release is posted at http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR07.10E.html.
Congratulations Matthew!