Ten years on from the Higgs boson, what is next for physics?
New particles beckon as the Large Hadron Collider returns to life
“I was actually shaking,” said Mitesh Patel, a particle physicist at Imperial College, London, as he describes the moment he saw the results. “I realised this was probably the most exciting thing I’ve done in my 20 years in particle physics.”
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Beyond the Standard Model”
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