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Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

As Spokesperson (leader) and Deputy Spokesperson (1993-2009) the author has been the leading figure in the CMS experiment. He made a substantial contribution to: (1) the conception, design, construction and preparation for the extraction of science from the CMS experiment; (2) the physics results, especially those on the search for Higgs boson into the two-photon mode and the combination of all the differing searches for the Higgs boson; (3) drafting and taking to publication the paper (the author was one of three drafters) on behalf of the 3500 strong collaboration; (4) the critique of the combined results presented.

This paper has been a product of a substantial academic and scientific endeavour by the author, one of a few originators of the CMS experiment. It has taken over 20 years from conception of the experiment to the discovery of the Higgs-like boson. As a leader of the experiment the author spent all his research time on the CMS project. CMS is one of the most complex and technologically advanced scientific instruments ever built. This is a seminal and a most important paper in particle physics and the long period and the enormous effort involved justifies double weighting this publication.