Prospects for Higgs Boson Research at the LHC

The search for Higgs bosons in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and beyond the Standard Model (BSM) started intensively at the Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider, which operated from 1989 to 2000, and later at the Tevatron from 2001 to 2011. In 2012, with the discovery of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a new era began. This allowed for precision measurements of the Higgs boson properties which, so far, are all consistent with the SM expectations. Many searches for predicted BSM Higgs bosons advanced the field of experimental Higgs boson physics. The LHC already operated in three running periods: Run 1 from 2010 to 2012, Run 2 from 2015 to 2018, and currently Run 3 from 2022 to 2026. The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) operation is foreseen from 2030. The prospects of experimental Higgs boson research for the next decade are reviewed. Abstract Published by the Jagiellonian University 2025 authors