From Photons to Higgs:A Story of Light by Moo-Young Han

By Moo-Young Han

This publication provides a quick creation to the quantum box conception of the normal version for quarks and leptons. With minimum use of arithmetic, it covers the fundamentals of quantum box conception, neighborhood gauge box idea, spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism, the Higgs mechanism and quantum chromodynamics.

From the time whilst the 1st version was once released till this present day, the sector of particle physics has visible a few significant break-through with the potential discovery of Higgs particle, sometimes called the Higgs boson. within the moment version, the well-known Higgs mechanism is integrated to give an explanation for the symmetry breaking within the typical version and the beginning of mass, and all of this is often defined in high-school point algebra.

Aimed at either scientists and non-specialists, it calls for just some rudimentary wisdom of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formula of Newtonian mechanics in addition to a uncomplicated figuring out of the certain concept of relativity and quantum mechanics to take pleasure in this book.

Contents:

  • Particles and Fields I: Dichotomy
  • Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics
  • Canonical Quantization
  • Particles and Fields II: Duality
  • Equations for Duality
  • Electromagnetic Field
  • Emulation of sunshine I: topic Fields
  • Road Map for box Quantization
  • Particles and Fields III: debris as Quanta of Fields
  • Emulation of sunshine II: Interactions
  • Triumph and Wane
  • Leptons and Quarks
  • What is Gauge box Theory?
  • The susceptible Gauge Fields
  • The Higgs Mechanism and the Electroweak Gauge Fields
  • The Higgs Particle
  • Evolution of the powerful Force
  • The historical past of colour SU(3) Symmetry
  • Quantum Chromodynamics, QCD
  • Appendices:
    • The usual Unit System
    • Notation
    • Velocity-Dependent Potential
    • Fourier Decomposition of Field
    • Mass devices for Particles
    • Mass-Range Relation

Readership: scholars, researchers, lecturers and non-specialists attracted to quantum box theory.

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