Early Morning Coffee at CERN

2: The Higgs Boson Special

Early Morning Coffee at CERN

Show Notes

Take a deep dive into the past, present and future of Higgs-boson research at CERN. Tune in to a special podcast on the occasion of the enigmatic boson’s 12th anniversary.

In this episode, 00:00 Teaser 00:13 Intro 03:29 4 July 2012 07:38 Why was this important? 14:29 Behind the discovery 28:19 Bosons and fermions 30:23 Books and metaphors 33:02 Since the discovery 37:47 High-Luminosity LHC 40:31 Physics at the HL-LHC 41:58 Detectors 42:30 The next era 42:52 Dark matter 44:28 Future machines 49:51 Question for you

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