Cracking the particle code of the universe : : the hunt for the Higgs boson / / John W. Moffat.
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Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, [2014] 2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (257 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude : CERN, April 2008
- What is everything made of?
- Detecting subatomic particles
- Group theory and gauge invariance
- Looking for something new at the LHC
- The Higgs particle/field and weak interactions
- Data that go bump in the night
- Trying to identify the 125 GeV bump
- Electroweak gauge theories
- The discovery of a new boson : is it the Higgs or not?
- Do we live in a naturally tuned universe?
- The last word until 2016
- Glossary.