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

Now in paperback: the “vivid account of what the process of discovery was really like for an insider.”—Peter Higgs

Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It’s the missing link between the birth of our universe—as a sea of tiny, massless particles—and the tangible world we live in today. But for more than 50 years, scientists wondered: Does it exist?

Physicist Jon Butterworth was at the frontlines of the hunt for the Higgs at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider—perhaps the most am...