Some Indian scientists and research institutes were also part of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment conducted at the European Organization for Nuclear Physics known as CERN in Switzerland. The discovery was of a new sub-atomic particle that is crucial to understanding how the universe is built.
Scientists from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad and Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar took part in the experiment.
The discovery is a boost to the Indian physicists and the country. It is said that the particle, known as Higgs boson or God particle, is also partly named after an Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.