I hope I am not wrong in imagining you may consider grouping quantum mechanics (QM) with research that has no way to ever benefit "humanity's well-being". (Even if I'd argue like art pure science & maths benefit humanity's well-being for it's own sake). This is relevant since accelerators like which was used for the Higgs Boson discovery are also used in general QM research:
https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsquantum-mechanics
> Quantum mechanics led to the development of things like lasers, light-emitting diodes, transistors, medical imaging, electron microscopes, and a host of other modern devices.
Additionally, it's ironic that you mentioned the Higgs-Boson, while perhaps many years before it's discovery and maybe not research CERN was anticipating in doing it did come up with the first webserver:
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-...