Computers to connect physicists from around the world to particle data

Frederick Luehring, a senior research scientist at IU, will examine the theoretical particle Higgs boson, which endows everything in the universe with mass. Working with a computer center jointly operated by IU and the University of Chicago, Luehring and other scientists will be able to receive data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Physicists will also search for supersymmetric particles, which could lead to the discovery of extra dimensions. 158 institutions in 35 countries will have access to the data.