Guest post by Peter Trüb, former CMS Collaborator, member of DECTRIS, a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute

Guest post by Jesse Thaler, an Associate Professor of Physics at MIT.

This is a guest post by Henna Silvennoinen, Mira Tengvall and Edith Villegas Garcia, who spent their summer at CERN, working on CMS Open Data.

Guest post by Tom McCauley, a physicist and software developer working for the CMS Collaboration.

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations was announced five years ago, on 4 July 2012. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of this discovery, we asked CMS scientists to recall what they were doing on that day.

Guest post by Daria Dvorzhitskaia