The discovery of the Higgs boson: a great achievement and a problem
by
Prof.Jean Zinn-Justin
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Europe/Berlin
Description
The recent discovery of the Higgs boson is a major experimental achievement and the conclusion of about forty years of hard work. It has definitively validated the Standard Model of interactions at the microscopic scale, a model whose construction took also about forty years starting with the elaboration of QED. Still most physicists believe that a number of physics questions remain unanswered, which involve physics beyond the Standard Model. Considering the Higgs particle, what theoretical clue do we have about the possible mass scale of new physics?
