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.