On the 4th July, 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson, which has led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. What is this long-sought Higgs boson? What has it told us and will tell us about Nature? In this talk, I would like to review the current status about the physics associated with the electroweak symmetry breaking, and argue the need for new physics at the TeV scale. We will also discuss the possible next generation of collider physics to uncover the nature beyond the electroweak scale.   

Host: Prof. Xiangdong Ji