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Author Moffat, John W.

Title Cracking the particle code of the universe : the hunt for the Higgs boson / John W. Moffat.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Higgs bosons.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Hunt for the Higgs boson
Other Form: Print version: Moffat, John W. Cracking the particle code of the universe : the hunt for the Higgs boson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014] xv, 232 pages 9780199915521 (DLC) 2013029713
ISBN 9780199915521 (alk. paper)
9780199915538 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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