April 18, 2022

Nebraska’s Caleb Fangmeier, a farm kid from Hebron, stayed up until 2 a.m. as an undergraduate to hear the announcement about the discovery of the Higgs boson. He now holds a doctorate in physics and works as a detector lab manager in Jorgensen Hall. His group is building nearly 2,500 particle detectors that will be used when the Large Hadron Collider restarts sometime between 2024 and 2026. In addition to Caleb, there is one postdoc, three graduate students and five undergraduates who work in the lab. They use gantrys to glue these things together with great precision. April 18, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.