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12/19/12
Physics World

What's in store for 2013?

Historians of physics will surely remember 2012 as the year when the Higgs boson. But what's next?

12/19/12
TIME

Runner-up: Fabiola Gianotti, the discoverer

Fabiola Gianotti's native smarts and intuitive people skills had earned her a spot managing a team of 3000 at the greatest research facility physicists have ever built. And all that was before this summer, when she and her CERN colleagues announced that, yes, they had well and truly captured the Higgs.

12/19/12
TIME

The Higgs boson: Particle of the Year

Forget Person of the Year–the discovery this summer by the Large Hadron Collider of the Higgs Boson particle was one of science’s greatest achievements.

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ALICE with one door open

Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25
Sarah Charley

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.