Almost 50 years after it was first proposed, evidence for the elusive Higgs boson finally emerged. But how can you detect a particle that only exists for a tiny fraction of a second? Jonathan Butterworth takes us through the experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. |

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Narrated by Vidish Athavale | Music by Kai Engel |

Jonathan is a Professor of Physics at UCL, head of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and a member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He writes regularly for The Guardian and has recently published 'Smashing Physics', a book on his experiences of the discovery of the Higgs boson, that was shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.