While a British committee is considering the question whether the United Kingdom can afford to remain a member of the European high-energy physics consortium CERN, particle physics itself is at an exciting stage. Here a British theorist describes the prospects for the coming decade.
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Smith, C. Opportunities in particle physics. Nature 312, 588–592 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/312588a0
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