Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics

Now in paperback: From a top physicist at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the first insider account of the discovery of the Higgs particle, and what it all means for our understanding of the laws of nature.Jon Butterworth captures a singular moment in science, when the entire field of particle physics hinged on a fundamental question: Why do some particles have mass? A leading physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest science experiment, Butterworth recounts the fast-paced, high-stakes hunt for the Higgs boson—the stubbornly elusive particle that would finally validate a 50-year-old theory . . . and change physics forever.