Comptes rendus Académie des sciences, Physique, tome 8, fasc 9, Novembre 2007 the mystery of the Higgs particle / Le mystère de la particule de Higgs

Prehistory of the Higgs boson. Spontaneous broken symmetry. The Higgs boson of the Standard Model. Higgs boson properties in the Standard Model and its supersymmetric extensions. Supersymmetric Higgs and radiative electroweak breaking. The Higgs as a pseudo-Goldstone boson. Higgs and Wilson lines in field and string theory. The holographic composite Higgs. Higgsless approach to electroweak symmetry breaking. Higgs searches at the LHC.