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understanding of the microcosm”. Meanwhile, more than 10 years later, and with the
Higgs boson discovered in 2014 at the LHC, the extended SM has been confirmed
with unprecedented precision yet the outstanding questions, in particular which path
to follow beyond the SM, have remained with us.
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