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Perspectives on Higgs Physics II
Contributor(s): Kane, Gordon (Editor)
ISBN: 981023127X     ISBN-13: 9789810231279
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $171.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 1997
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics - General
- Science | Physics - Nuclear
Dewey: 539.721
LCCN: 98122584
Series: Advanced Directions in High Energy Physics
Physical Information: 500 pages
 
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The Standard Model of particle physics is extremely successful in describing nature. It is, however, incomplete in one major way: the masses of gauge bosons and fermions enter the Standard Model through the Higgs mechanism. That is completely satisfactory technically, but it is not understood physically. We do not yet know what nature really does to give mass to particles. Understanding Higgs physics is necessary in order to complete the Standard Model, and to learn how to extend it and improve its foundations.This book is a collection of current work and thinking about these questions by active workers. It speculates about what form the answers will take, as well as updates and extends previous books and reviews. Some chapters emphasize theoretical questions, some focus on connections with other areas of physics, and some discuss how we can get data to uncover nature's solution. This second edition adds information and insights from the last five years, including the recent indirect but statistically significant evidence for the existence of a Higgs boson from precision measurements. It contains contributions from Blondel, Quiros, Haber, Pokorski, Dawson, Janot, Mrenna, Gunion, Ibanez, Ross, Bigi, Carena, Wagner, Georgi, Chanowitz, Yuan, Hill, and others.