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

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 Jesse Thaler, an Associate Professor of Physics at MIT.

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

by Kathryn Coldham

By Gaia Grosso