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10th anniversary of the HIGGS BOSON

This July saw the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations. CERN celebrated with a symposium, taking a look at the results from the last ten years and thinking to the future. You can find recordings of the talks at the symposium, here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1135177/timetable/

A photo from the CERN auditorium. At the front is CERN's Director General, Dr Fabiola Gianotti and the screen shows the CERN logo with a 10 next to it and the words: "10 years HIGGS BOSON discovery".

If you’re still not sure what the Higgs boson is and how it gives mass to elementary particles, I made this short video to help explain it:

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