The Origin of Mass

Höfundur: John Iliopoulos (Útgáfa: 0)
The Origin of Mass

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The discovery of a new elementary particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 made headlines in world media. Since we already know of a large number of elementary particles, why did this latest discovery generate so much excitement? This small book reveals that this particle provides the key to understanding one of the most extraordinary phenomena which occurred in the early Universe. It introduces the mechanism that made possible, within tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the generation of massive particles.

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Útgefandi
Oxford University Press Academic UK
ISBN
9780192527547
Print ISBN
9780198805175
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
John Iliopoulos
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2017-09-29
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgment
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A Brief History of Cosmology
  • 3 Symmetries
  • 3.1 Space symmetries
  • 3.1.1 Translation symmetry
  • 3.1.2 Rotation symmetry
  • 3.1.3 Space inversion
  • 3.2 Time symmetries
  • 3.3 Internal symmetries
  • 3.4 Local or gauge symmetries
  • 3.4.1 Local translations
  • 3.4.2 Internal gauge symmetries
  • 4 A Problem of Mass
  • 4.1 Mass and the range of interactions
  • 4.2 Gauge interactions
  • 4.3 The masses of matter constituents: quarks and leptons
  • 4.3.1 Chirality
  • 4.3.2 Chirality and weak interactions
  • 5 Spontaneously Broken Symmetries
  • 5.1 Curie’s theorem
  • 5.2 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in classical physics
  • 5.3 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum physics
  • 5.4 Goldstone theorem
  • 5.5 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the presence of gauge interactions
  • 6 The Standard Theory
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The electromagnetic and weak interactions
  • 6.3 The strong interactions
  • 6.4 The Standard Theory and experiment
  • 7 Epilogue
  • Appendix 1 The Elementary Particles
  • A1.1 Introduction
  • A1.2 The four interactions
  • A1.3 Some basic notions
  • A1.4 The neutrino saga
  • A1.5 The table of elementary particles
  • A1.5.1 The elementary particles in 1932: the world is simple
  • A1.5.2 The elementary particles today
  • The disorder
  • The quarks
  • The table today
  • Appendix 2 From Sophus Lie to Élie Cartan
  • Index