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Physics World July 2022

Physics World July 2022

Smashing stuff: people, plans and projects in particle physics

This special issue of Physics World marks the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson with a feature by Achintya Rao, who on that famous day in July 2012 was working as a science communicator for CERN. Rao reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the day unfolded at CERN as the news of the Higgs was revealed to the world. Elsewhere, there’s an interview with Fermilab boss Lia Merminga and a profile of pioneering particle physicist Helen Edwards. Looking ahead, Michael Riordan also considers the future of high-energy physics.

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The Otto Celera 500L plane opinion

Green-sky thinking

The CERN auditorium on 4 July 2012, filled with scientists applauding the announcement of the Higgs boson feature

A day in physics like no other

Michel Spiro interview

IUPAP: uniting physicists for the last 100 years

Collage of Gaia all-sky maps news

Gaia releases new Milky Way maps

Lia Merminga at Fermilab feature

Directing the future of Fermilab

Artist's illustration of inside a collider feature

Where next for high-energy physics?

Helen Edwards feature

Helen Edwards: pioneer of the Tevatron

Peter Higgs visits the CMS experiment at CERN in 2008 review

The man behind the machine

Cartoon of science lab equipment review

Making science centre stage

Freya Blekman in front of the CMS detector careers

On the particle pathway

Cartoon of 'How it started' and 'How it's going' showing excited celebrations in the first frame, dejection in the second lateral thoughts

Keep on keeping on

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