“On October 8, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Professor Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh and Professor Francois Englert of Free University of Brussels would share the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, who had been advocating the existence of Higgs boson.

In 1960s they found out one after the other the mechanism in which a substance became to have mass after the creation of the universe. The elementary particle of its origin turned out to be called “Higgs Boson”.

It was July 4 of last year when an elementary particle deemed as “Higgs Boson” was found and made headlines of news throughout the world. Used for the discovery was the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which consisted of about 1700 superconducting magnets.

The technology of Japanese industries has greatly contributed to LHC. Particularly, it was IHI who supplies freezing facilities to cool down the superconducting magnets of LHC to an ultracold level (superfluid helium).”