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. - 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780199915538


Higgs bosons.
Particles (Nuclear physics)


Electronic books.

QC793.5.B62 / M64 2014

539.7/21