Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Historical Perspective
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-05-12 v3
Abstract
The discovery of the Higgs boson is a major milestone in our progress toward understanding the natural world. A particular aim of this article is to show how diverse ideas came together in the conception of electroweak symmetry breaking that led up to the discovery. I will also survey what we know that we did not know before, what properties of the Higgs boson remain to be established, and what new questions we may now hope to address.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.01756,
title = {Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Historical Perspective},
author = {Chris Quigg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01756},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages; minor changes to references and text; one typo corrected