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Carlos Pajares

Professor emeritus at the University of Santiago de Compostela, theoretical physicist and scientific delegate for Spain on the CERN Council when the Higgs boson was discovered

I witnessed the atmosphere, the work and effort of the entire scientific community involved in the discovery, as well as the joy and excitement of achieving it. It should not be forgotten that there were relevant scientists who did not believe in its existence, Hawking among them. Since then, the properties of the Higgs have been experimentally verified and a deviation from the predictions of the standard model has been experimentally searched for.

So far, no sufficiently significant deviations have been found, although there are some data that show some tension between data and predictions. However, there is a need for more than the standard model, since the standard model has unknowns that need to be resolved. To this end, new accelerators of different types are being planned.

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