theoretical physics

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Higgs10: the future of Higgs research

History teaches that those who explore relentlessly and fearlessly are often the ones rewarded with the greatest prize of all: the truth.

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Physics
10 August, 2022
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10 August, 2022

Higgs10: Ten things we’ve learned about the Higgs boson in the past ten years

Since its discovery in 2012, the Higgs boson has become one of the most powerful tools to probe our understanding of nature and, with that, examine some of the biggest open questions in physics today.

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Physics
19 July, 2022

Higgs10: The dramatic last year of CERN’s flagship LEP collider

The year 2000 was set to be the last year of running for CERN’s Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider, and it ended dramatically

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Physics
31 May, 2022

Higgs10: Higgs boson and the Standard Model in the 70s

As the various breakthroughs of the 1970s gradually consolidated the Standard Model, the Brout–Englert–Higgs field and its boson emerged as the most promising theoretical model to explain the origin of mass

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Physics
10 May, 2022

Higgs10: A boson is born

The Higgs boson holds the record (48 years) among elementary particles for the time between prediction and discovery, going from an esoteric technicality to commanding the global spotlight at the world’s most powerful collider

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Physics
28 April, 2022
Physics
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28 April, 2022

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Discussion and solitude in the Theoretical Physics department

Theoreticians stuck at home connect with their global community and focus on their research

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At CERN
29 April, 2020

The Higgs mechanism

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