Since the 2004 first edition, the Large Hadron Collider was completed in at the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, and in 2011, scientists announced that they had accumulated enough evidence to support the existence of the long-sought Higgs particle, and Han has updated his account to encompass the discovery. He seeks to explain in simple terms the nuts and bolts of the spontaneously broken gauge symmetry, what the Higgs particle is exactly, and how it helps provide a mathematical technique that can be viewed as giving mass to particles that were massless to start with. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This book presents a brief introduction to the quantum field theory of the Standard Model for quarks and leptons. With minimal use of mathematics, it covers the basics of quantum field theory, local gauge field theory, spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism, the Higgs mechanism and quantum chromodynamics.From the time when the first edition was published until today, the field of particle physics has seen some major break-through with the possible discovery of Higgs particle, also known as the Higgs boson. In the second edition, the famous Higgs mechanism is included to explain the symmetry breaking in the Standard Model and the origin of mass, and all of this is explained in high-school level algebra.Aimed at both scientists and non-specialists, it requires only some rudimentary knowledge of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of Newtonian mechanics as well as a basic understanding of the special theory of relativity and quantum mechanics to enjoy this book.
