10 years since the discovery of the Higgs boson

On 4 July, the world scientific community celebrated the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson plays a key role in the mechanism of mass generation of other elementary particles.

Its observation completed the experimental discovery of the spectrum of elementary particles predicted in the Standard Model. Scientists of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research made a decisive contribution to the discovery of the Higgs boson and are rightfully co-authors of this discovery. This event was announced on 4 July, 2012 and since then researchers have made significant progress in understanding the properties of the Higgs boson, although there is much to be explored. A link to the CERN press release on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson has been published on the JINR website.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the particle, a jubilee symposium was held at CERN. Its participants reviewed the latest results of research on the Higgs boson and discussed future prospects. The symposium was attended by the Chairman of the Council of the Association of Institutes of the Russian Federation and the JINR Member States in the CMS experiment (RDMS CMS), Scientific Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Matveev. On the eve of the anniversary event, he spoke about why the discovery of this particle was so important for fundamental science.

At the end of his interview, Academician V.A.Matveev said:

"On behalf of JINR Directorate, I am pleased to congratulate all the participants in the historical experiments at LHC, CERN, all the staff members of the Institute's laboratories, scientists, engineers, specialists who contributed in one way or another to the development of unique experimental facilities, to congratulate them on the 10th anniversary of the discovery of one of the key elements of the current theory of elementary particles - the Higgs boson. This discovery marks the transition to a new stage of fundamental research - to the search for what is now called New Physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles, astrophysics and cosmology.

Dear colleagues and friends! On behalf of Directorate of the Institute, on behalf of the entire scientific staff, I wish you new major achievements on the way of revealing the hidden secrets of nature and understanding the laws of the evolution of the Universe, discovering new fundamental components in the world and new fundamental forces. Good luck to you, dear colleagues! Go ahead to new frontiers of big science!"

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