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About 50 years ago, the Higgs mechanism was introduced in the Standard Model of particle physics in order to reconcile the presence of massive particles with the requirement of gauge invariance.This mechanism predicts the existence of the Higgs boson and, while the Standard Model has been successfully tested by all experimental data, this element was missing and hunted for since long time. Only the construction of the most complex experimental facilities of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN led in 2012 to the discovery of the Higgs particle by two independent experimental teams. The main steps of these investigations are reviewed; the properties of the Higgs particle, its production and decay modes are briefly discussed; moreover, open questions about possible extensions of the Standard Model are mentioned together with their experimental implications.
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Costa, G. (2015). The Discovery of the Higgs Particle. In: Di Bartolo, B., Collins, J., Silvestri, L. (eds) Nano-Structures for Optics and Photonics. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9133-5_19
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