Waiting for the W and the Higgs
History and Philosophy of Physics
2016-10-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The search for the left-handed bosons, the proposed quanta of the weak interaction, and the Higgs boson, which spontaneously breaks the symmetry of unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions, has driven elementary-particle physics research from the time that I entered college to the present and has led to many unexpected and exciting discoveries which revolutionized our view of subnuclear physics over that period. In this article I describe how these searches and discoveries have intertwined with my own career.
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@article{arxiv.1608.06934,
title = {Waiting for the W and the Higgs},
author = {M. J. Tannenbaum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06934},
year = {2016}
}
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23 pages 12 figures, accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal H