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The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond at the LHC: Emphasis on ATLAS

Peter Jenni

Peter Jenni

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany

CERN, Switzerland

E-mail Address: peter.jenni@cern.ch

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Abstract

The journey in search for the Higgs boson with the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started more than two decades ago. But the first discussions motivating the LHC project dream date back even further into the 1980s. This article will recall some of these early historical considerations, mention some of the LHC machine milestones and achievements, focus as an example of a technological challenge on the unique ATLAS superconducting magnet system, and then give an account of the physics results so far, leading to, and featuring particularly, the Higgs boson results, and sketching finally prospects for the future. With its emphasis on the ATLAS experiment it is complementary to the preceding article by Tejinder S. Virdee which focused on the CMS experiment.

Based on talk given at the Memorial Meeting for Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdus Salam’s 90th Birthday, 25–28 January 2016, NTU, Singapore.

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