Physics at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 26 February 2014)

A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) “Physics at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson” was held in the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, on 26 February 2014.

The agenda of the session, announced on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the Physical Sciences Division, RAS, listed the following reports:
(1) Boos E E (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow) “Standard Model and predictions for the Higgs boson”;
(2) Zaytsev A M (National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow) “ATLAS experiment. The Higgs boson and the Standard Model”;
(3) Lanyov A V (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region) “CMS collaboration results: Higgs boson and search for new physics”;
(4) Kazakov D I (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region) “The Higgs boson has been found: what is next?”

Papers written on the basis of oral reports 1, 3, and 4 are published below. An extensive review of the topic in item 2 will be published in an upcoming issue of Physics–Uspekhi.