Pippa Wells, Michael Luck, Joachim Mnich and Luc Moreau

Michael Luck signing the visitor’s book in the presence of Joachim Mnich

Last week, Professor Michael Luck, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, and Professor Luc Moreau, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine, represented the University during a visit to CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

Organised by the CERN protocol team, Professor Moreau shared some highlights of this visit in a recent blog post: 'Our host for the day was Pippa Wells, Deputy Director for Research and Computing, who started with an introduction to CERN. The UK was a founding member of CERN in 1954 and has been very active since its inception. Under the leadership of Professor Antonella De Santo, the University of Sussex became involved in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator, designed to understand fundamental open questions in particle physics.

'Antonella is part of ATLAS, a large international collaboration involving thousands of scientists and engineers. ATLAS is one of the two collaborations that in 2012 discovered the Higgs Boson and that are measuring its mass and other properties. This experimental discovery validated the Higg’s theoretical model and resulted in the Nobel Prize for Physics award in 2013.'

Read the full blog post by Professor Moreau, which features excellent photos from this visit. Pictured on the top right with Michael and Luc, are Pippa Wells, and Joachim Mnich, CERN's Director for Research and Computing.