


“THE HIGGS BOSON” CERN ANNOUNCEMENT
Our team of engineers are proud to be associated with the CERN project in Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as it is known is a particular accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionize our understanding from the miniscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.
Two beams of subatomic particles called “Hadrons” – either protons or lead ions – travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world then analyze the particles created in the collisions using special detectors in a number of experiments dedicated to the LHC to find this fundamental particle called the “Higgs Boson Particle”.
The discovery of the “Higgs Boson Particle” has been due to collaboration of some of the world’s most eminent scientists and engineers. In that mix you can find the team from Scotland Electronics who developed specialist software and electronic hardware to ensure the safety of the Particle beam. In effect it was responsible for the emergency shutdown of the particle beam in the event of an anomaly. 6 months after the experimentation began the beams became misaligned and emergency shutdown procedures were initiated. As was expected the designs and hardware produced by Scotland Electronics worked perfectly and the world was saved!
A Further example of how Scotland Electronics team of highly capable engineers and support staff are able to represent the very best of engineering talent.