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Silviu
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Hello! What makes a theoretical model stand out compared to others. I was thinking about the Higgs mechanism and the fact that there were quite a lot of other models (proposed in the 60's-70's) to explain symmetry breaking, which (I assume based on the fact that they got published) were consistent mathematically and physically. Yet the first model they chose to test at CERN was the Higgs and it was the right one. I guess it was not a complete coincidence, but at the same time no one was 100% sure it would work (otherwise they wouldn't need to test it experimentally). So how did they chose it? What made it stand out compared to the others models? And in general, what makes experimentalists pick a model to test out of the hundreds that get published? Thank you!