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

This is a guest post by CMS collaborator Francesca Cavallo, who is one of the creators of the Higgs Boson Goose Game.