The world of particle physics changed in 2012. Following decades of experimental searches and analysis, the scalar particle thought to be responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, the Higgs boson, was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC at CERN. Now that we know of the existence and mass of the Higgs boson, […]
Future Colliders: A strategic perspective
Over the past decades, colliders have defined the energy frontier in particle physics. Both electron-positron, proton-(anti)proton as well as electron-proton colliders have played complementary roles in fully mapping out the constituents and forces in the Standard Model (SM). We are now at a point where all predicted SM constituents have been found at colliders. Currently […]
Editors’ note (special banner)
After 4 July 2012, 8 October 2013 was another important date in the life of particle physicists when the work of François Englert and Peter Higgs was recognised with the 2013 Physics Nobel Prize. At the same moment, the thousands of LHC particle physicists felt also rewarded for their hard work in finding the Higgs […]
The Infinity Puzzle – The Story of the Higgs Boson: From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six
Colloquium by Frank Close (Oxford University) on Thursday 18 April in the CERN Main Auditorium at 16h30. The colloquium will be webcast.
From CERN: New results indicate that particle discovered at CERN is a Higgs boson
From symmetry magazine: What else could the Higgs be?
Higgs search presentations at ICHEP 2012
One of the most rewarding features of physics research is the constant interplay between theory and experiment. The job of a physicist is to describe the physical world, and to advance our understanding of the laws of nature. Our science moves forward by the combination of experimentalists making observations that must be explained by theory, and […]
Scientific justification for the ILC
A first panel discussion on what will be required to provide scientific justification for the International Linear Collider was held at the LCSW11 workshop in Granada, Spain, in September 2011. That lively discussion could be characterised by expressions of a broad set of opinions, but most of the panelists and audience stated that if the […]