Higgs boson: foundations and implications of a very special discovery (Manne Siegbahn Memorial Lecture)
by
Fabiola Gianotti(CERN (FG) and University of California, Santa Barbara/CERN (JI)), Joseph Incandela(CERN (FG) and University of California, Santa Barbara/CERN (JI))
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Europe/Stockholm
Oskar Klein Auditorium
Oskar Klein Auditorium
Description
On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments operating
at the CERN Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery
of a new particle compatible with the Higgs boson, which is a crucial
piece for our understanding of fundamental physics and thus the structure
and evolution of the universe.
This Lecture describes the unprecedented instruments and challenges
that have allowed such an accomplishment, the physics meaning and
relevance of this discovery, and the present understanding of the properties
of this very special particle.
