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SYHB: Symposium Quantum Physics at the High-Energy Frontier: The Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Beyond

SYHB 1: Symposium Quantum Physics at the High-Energy Frontier: The Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Beyond

SYHB 1.2: Invited Talk

Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 11:15–11:45, ZHG105

The path to the discovery of the Higgs boson — •Karl Jakobs — Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

The announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson on July 4, 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the European Research Centre for particle physics, CERN in Geneva, marked an important milestone in the research on the fundamental building blocks of matter and the forces acting between them, and on the verification of quantum field theory-based predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was designed back in the 1990s to clarify the question of the existence of the Higgs boson, the last missing building block in the Standard Model. In this talk, the path from the establishment of the Standard Model and its quantum structure to the discovery of the Higgs boson and the first measurement of its properties will be described. In addition, insights into the realisation of the LHC and the associated experiments will be given.

Keywords: Higgs Boson; LHC; Higgs discovery