AUSTIN, Texas, July 7 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:
This May, students from The University of Texas at Austin made their way to Geneva, Switzerland, to study modern particle and nuclear physics at CERN and other nearby labs. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, which includes the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile ring buried underground along the Switzerland-France border that accelerates subatomic particles close to the speed of light.
Led by nuclear engineering professor Will Flanagan and physics professor Karol Lang, students were enrolled in a course with an emphasis in detector technologies that provided a sur...