• Question: Have you, yourself, ever discovered a new type of particle or quark as you spoke about in your work?

    Asked by rhiannaberry to David on 17 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: David Freeborn

      David Freeborn answered on 17 Jun 2013:


      These days, nobody can really claim to be the discoverer of a particle- it’s only done by huge teams (possibly hundreds of people). Finding a particle involves looking through the tens of billions of reactions.
      I was part of the very big group that discovered the Higgs Boson, but I can’t personally claim much credit for it!

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