Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2015 Jan 13;373(2032):1-25.
In July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a Higgs-like boson, a new heavy particle at a mass more than 130 times the mass of a proton. Since then, further data have revealed its properties to be strikingly similar to those of the Standard Model Higgs boson, a particle expected from the mechanism introduced almost 50 years ago by six theoreticians including British physicists Peter Higgs from Edinburgh University and Tom Kibble from Imperial College London. The discovery is the culmination of a truly remarkable scientific journey and undoubtedly the most significant scientific discovery of the twenty-first century so far. Its experimental confirmation turned out to be a monumental task requiring the creation of an accelerator and experiments of unprecedented capability and complexity, designed to discern the signatures that correspond to the Higgs boson. Thousands of scientists and engineers, in each of the ATLAS and CMS teams, came together from all four corners of the world to make this massive discovery possible.
2012 年 7 月，位于欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机中的 ATLAS 和 CMS 合作组宣布发现了一种类希格斯玻色子，这是一种新的重粒子，质量超过质子的 130 倍。此后，更多的数据显示其性质与标准模型希格斯玻色子非常相似，该粒子是近 50 年前由包括英国爱丁堡大学的彼得·希格斯和伦敦帝国理工学院的汤姆·基布尔在内的六位理论家提出的机制所预期的。这一发现是一次真正非凡的科学之旅的巅峰，无疑是迄今为止 21 世纪最重要的科学发现。其实验证实是一项艰巨的任务，需要创建一个加速器和具有前所未有的能力和复杂性的实验，旨在辨别与希格斯玻色子相对应的特征。数千名来自世界各地的科学家和工程师齐聚一堂，分别加入 ATLAS 和 CMS 团队，共同完成了这一重大发现。
