Waiting for the W and the Higgs
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1340420
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-113307-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 2102-6459; TRN: US1701568
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- The European Physical Journal. H
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 41; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2102-6459
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; Higgs; particle physics; electromagnetic
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Tannenbaum, Michael J. Waiting for the W and the Higgs. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1140/epjh/e2016-70048-7.
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