Clarification

An article last week about a 25-ton granite slab being moved into the Physics-Astronomy Building omitted reference to a key part of the research. The slab will be a giant table on which to fashion precision components for one of the world’s most sensitive particle detectors. Physics professor Henry Lubatti is responsible for the tubes that go into the detector components and physics research professor Paul Mockett is responsible for assembling the tubes into detector components called chambers. The chambers will be used in the Large Hadron Collider, now under construction at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland. ¶