Cracking the particle code of the universe : the hunt for the Higgs boson /

Moffat, John W.,

Cracking the particle code of the universe : the hunt for the Higgs boson / Hunt for the Higgs boson John W. Moffat. - xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-216) and index.

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 2015.

0199915520 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780199915521 (hbk. : alk. paper)

40023217974

2013029713


Higgs bosons.
Particles (Nuclear physics)

QC793.5.B62 / M64 2014

539.721 / MJC

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