Waiting for the W and the Higgs

Tannenbaum, Michael J.

doi:10.1140/epjh/e2016-70048-7

Title: Waiting for the W and the Higgs

Journal Article · Thu Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · The European Physical Journal. H

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2016-70048-7· OSTI ID:1340420

Tannenbaum, Michael J. ^[1]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

The search for the left-handed W± 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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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

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OSTI ID:: 1340420

Report Number(s):: BNL-113307-2016-JA; TRN: US1701568

Journal Information:: The European Physical Journal. H, Vol. 41, Issue 4; ISSN 2102-6459

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