LEADER 04657nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910821380503321 005 20240516212026.0 010 $a0-19-165003-X 010 $a1-282-16671-9 010 $a9786613809780 010 $a0-19-165002-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000110998 035 $a(EBL)982493 035 $a(OCoLC)802692702 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000737735 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12360845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737735 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10787106 035 $a(PQKB)11559300 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC982493 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL982493 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10583898 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL380978 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000110998 100 $a20120810d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHiggs$b[electronic resource] $ethe invention and discovery of the 'God particle' /$fJim Baggott 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-967957-6 311 $a0-19-960349-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; About the Author; Preface; Foreword; Prologue: Form and Substance; Part I: Invention; 1 The Poetry of Logical Ideas: In which German mathematician Emmy Noether discovers the relationship between conservation laws and the deep symmetries of nature; 2 Not a Sufficient Excuse: In which Chen Ning Yang and Robert Mills try to develop a quantum field theory of the strong nuclear force and annoy Wolfgang Pauli 327 $a3 People Will Be Very Stupid About It: In which Murray Gell-Mann discovers strangeness and the 'Eightfold Way', Sheldon Glashow applies Yang-Mills field theory to the weak nuclear force, and people are very stupid about it4 Applying the Right Ideas to the Wrong Problem: In which Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig invent quarks and Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam use the Higgs mechanism to give mass to the W and Z particles (finally!) 327 $a5 I Can Do That: In which Gerard 't Hooft proves that Yang-Mills field theories can be renormalized and Murray Gell-Mann and Harald Fritzsch develop a theory of the strong force based on quark colourPart II: Discovery; 6 Alternating Neutral Currents: In which protons and neutrons are shown to have an internal structure and the predicted neutral currents of the weak nuclear force are found, and then lost, and then found again 327 $a7 They Must Be Ws: In which quantum chromodynamics is formulated, the charm-quark is discovered, and the W and Z particles are found, precisely where they were predicted to be8 Throw Deep: In which Ronald Reagan throws his weight behind the Superconducting Supercollider, but when the project is cancelled by Congress six years later all that remains is a hole in Texas; 9 A Fantastic Moment: In which the Higgs boson is explained in terms that a British politician can understand, hints of the Higgs are found at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider is switched on, and then blows up 327 $a10 The Shakespeare Question: In which the LHC performs better than anyone expected (except Lyn Evans), a year's data is gathered in a few months and the Higgs boson runs out of places to hideEpilogue: The Construction of Mass; Endnotes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 330 $aThe hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Has the discovery announced on 4 July 2012 finished the search? And was finding it really worth all the effort?The short answer is yes. The Higgs field is proposed as the way in which particles gain mass - a fundamental property of matter. It's the strongest indicator yet that the Standard Model of physics really does reflect the basic building blocks of our Universe. Little wonder the hunt and discovery 606 $aHiggs bosons 606 $aParticles (Nuclear physics) 615 0$aHiggs bosons. 615 0$aParticles (Nuclear physics) 676 $a539.72 676 $a539.721 700 $aBaggott$b J. E$0882953 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821380503321 996 $aHiggs$94030679 997 $aUNINA