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The High Energy Physics Experimental team investigates matter's fundamental building blocks using cutting-edge particle accelerators worldwide. They collaborate on the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Nebraska scientists contributed to the groundbreaking Higgs boson discovery in 2012 and are gearing up for new breakthroughs as the LHC restarts in 2015 with unprecedented proton beam energies. Their work involves maintaining a global computing cluster for CMS researchers and developing upgraded detector components for 2016 installation. Additionally, they oversee CROP, an educational initiative deploying cosmic-ray detectors in Nebraska high schools, and participate in the South Pole's Askaryan Radio Array project studying high-energy neutrinos.