John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
The Higgs boson was postulated in 1964, and phenomenological studies of its
possible production and decays started in the early 1970s, followed by studies
of its possible production in e+ e-, pbar p and pp collisions, in particular.
Until recently, the most sensitive searches for the Higgs boson were at LEP
between 1989 and 2000, which have been complemented by searches at the Fermilab
Tevatron. The LHC has recently entered the hunt, excluding a Higgs boson over a
large range of masses and revealing a tantalizing hint in the range 119 to 125
GeV, and there are good prospects that the existence or otherwise of the Higgs
boson will soon be established. One of the most attractive possibilities is
that the Higgs boson is accompanied by supersymmetry, though composite options
have yet to be excluded. This article reviews some of the key historical
developments in Higgs physics over the past half-century.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6045
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