From Photons to Higgs ─ A Story of Light

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 c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)