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<h1>The Higgs</h1>
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<p class="abstract">On July 4th 2012, the two LHC experiments ATLAS
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and CMS announced the discovery of a new boson, which is likely to be
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the Higgs boson. It has been the missing piece of the Standard Model
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for many years, and its discovery is one of the most amazing successes
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of physics. In this chapter, we will explain the Higgs mechanism, that
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gives mass to all the particles we know by now.</p>
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