Ivo van Vulpen

Ivo van Vulpen is a particle physicist working at the University of Amsterdam and at Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute on Subatomic Particles. He is a member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN and lives in Leiden, Netherlands.

How to discover a new particle

In 2012, a team of scientists made history when they discovered the Higgs Boson. Ivo van Vulpen, who was a member of the team, explains the ways you can detect a particle for the first time in this extract from his book, How to Find a Higgs Boson.