Brief history for the search and discovery of the Higgs particle -- a personal perspective

DOI10.1142/S0217732313300279MaRDI QIDQ5415022zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Sau Lan Wu

Publication date 9 May 2014

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4425

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs bosonHiggs discoveryLarge Hadron Colliderstandard model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Historiography (01A85) History of quantum theory (81-03) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: In 1964, a new particle was proposed by several groups to answer the question of where the masses of elementary particles come from; this particle is usually referred to as the Higgs particle or the Higgs boson. In July 2012, this Higgs particle was finally found experimentally, a feat accomplished by the ATLAS Collaboration and the CMS Collaboration using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is the purpose of this review to give my personal perspective on a brief history of the experimental search for this particle since the '80s and finally its discovery in 2012. Besides the early searches, those at the LEP collider at CERN, the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are described in some detail. This experimental discovery of the Higgs boson is often considered to be the most important advance in particle physics in the last half a century, and some of the possible implications are briefly discussed. This review is partially based on a talk presented by the author at the conference ``Higgs Quo Vadis, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, USA, March 10-15, 2013.

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