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Cracking the particle code of the universe : the hunt for the Higgs boson / John W. Moffat.
Van Pelt Library QC793.5.B62 M64 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moffat, John W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Higgs bosons.
- Particles (Nuclear physics).
- Physical Description:
- xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Hunt for the Higgs boson
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199915521
- 0199915520
- OCLC:
- 854541740
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