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Live from the Perimeter Institute: The Most Wanted Particle

Live at 7 p.m. ET: CERN researcher and physicist Jon Butterworth considers the quest for Higgs boson

Jon Butterworth (Gabriela Secara photo)

Jon Butterworth (Gabriela Secara photo)

Dr. Jon Butterworth is a CERN researcher and head of physics at University College London. In tonight’s lecture from the Perimeter Institute, he considers the excitement and tension surrounding the quest for the Higgs boson and his own research at CERN’s ATLAS detector. Watch as he discusses the exciting breakthroughs that still await the world of high-energy physics:

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