The Excitement and Significance of the Higgs Boson Discovery

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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