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Waddia Suman from Roots IVY RiverviewCampus recently returned from a highly selective Science Summer Camp in Switzerland. Brimming with exuberance, Waddia narrates, “For a budding physicist like me, visiting CERN, looking at its world-changing experiments, meeting with smartest scientists and engineers of our times was just a dream. Thanks to Allah and with the support of Ma’am Khadija and my counselor Ma’am Urooj, I was able to survive a 3% probability to become first-ever Pakistani high school student to participate in CERN’s fully-funded prestigious particle physics program School LAB camp as one of 30 international campers.

While staying with current and future Nobel laureates at CERN hostel, I visited and learned about CERN’s facilities in both Switzerland and France: SM-18 magnet test facility, ISOLDE radio-ion beam facility, AMS cosmic ray spectrometer (also mooching around in AMS building just to see if AMS leader and Nobel laureate Dr Samuel Ting is in his office or not ) antimatter factory (ELENA and antiproton decelerator), CERN control and data centers and a virtual tour to LHC experiments 100m underground. I also learned advanced particle physics, worked with X-ray spectrometers and bubble chambers, analyzed data from IceCube neutrino observatory in Antarctica, got taught supersymmetry by famous physicist Dr John Ellis (yay!) and made inspiring friends from Italy to Iran to Japan.

The most awesome part: me and my 5-member team researched in 4 days about how Higgs mechanism gives mass to weak bosons in which we learned the maths behind quantum field theory (like tensors etc) and lagrangian for Standard Model as well as Higgs interaction — which we presented in front of IdeaSquare scientists on last day.”

For information: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is world’s largest and most respected institute for cutting-edge research in high-energy physics straddling across Franco-Swiss border. Founded in 1950s, it is funded by the European countries and has scientific collaboration with more than 100 countries.

It is also the birthplace of World Wide Web, home of the Gargamelle bubble chamber experiment (which proved existence of neutral currents proposed by electroweak unification of Abdus Salam et al), world’s largest machine Large Hadron Collider (a 27 km circumference particle accelerator) where Higgs boson was found, and home of Future Circular Collider (a 100km circumference high-energy particle accelerator ready to shoot dark matter down by 2050s). Long story short: a scifi universe for ordinary people, and a Willy Wonka chocolate factory for physics lovers.

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