A special week for particle physics
"Monday, 4 July is the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery.There will be a scientific symposium at CERN (webcast transmission) and a public session in Lisbon. The next day, the LHC starts taking data after a three-year shutdown. More info inside."
Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, a packed CERN main auditorium watched the ATLAS and CMS collaborations present compelling evidence for the discovery of the Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This discovery confirmed the existence of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism proposed by theorists in the 1960s. The subsequent 10 years have seen impressive advances in our understanding of the Higgs boson's properties, and how they determine the features of the universe. Nevertheless, there is still much to discover.The next step will be taken right away.
On 5 July, the new data-taking period (Run 3) at the LHC will be launched, with collisions of stable proton beams at a new energy world-record of 13.6 x 1012 electron-Volts (13.6 TeV). The LHC restarted on April 2022 after three years of work to push the performances of the collider and its four main detectors to their limit. The larger and higher-quality data samples collected by the LHC experiments will allow scientists to continue stress-testing the Standard Model of particle physics, further understand the properties of the Higgs boson and advance in cracking some of the outstanding mysteries of the universe.
You are all invited to join us in celebrating the past and present achievement and looking ahead to the future of particle physics:
- 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson - Scientific symposium at CERN (webcast transmission https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1135177, program: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1135177)
- Public session in Lisbon: screening of the film "Particle Fever" followed by conversation/debate between the audience and particle physicists (original version subtitled in Portuguese). IST, anfiteatro de Mecânica, 4 July 18:00
- Follow the start of the LHC Run 3 live on social media
- In the CERN Bulletin, the Higgs@10 article series tells us the history that led up to the Higgs discovery and CERN’s role in this endeavour. https://home.cern/news/series/higgs10
- CERN Courier: the May/June issue features the restart of the LHC. The July/August issue will feature the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson https://cerncourier.com/p/magazine
- Exhibition: series of posters for the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson’s discovery in different languages (Portuguese-English version is available) https://cds.cern.ch/record/2811785?ln=en and https://cds.cern.ch/record/2813108?ln=en