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The Origin of Mass: Elementary Particles and Fundamental Symmetries
John Iliopoulos
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Description for The Origin of Mass: Elementary Particles and Fundamental Symmetries
Hardback. The Origin of Mass is a guided tour of cosmic evolution, from tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the elementary particles that we study in our accelerators today. The guiding principle of this book is a concept of symmetry which, in a profound and fascinating way, seems to determine the structure of the Universe. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: PHP. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The discovery of a new elementary particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 made headlines in world media. Since we already know of a large number of elementary particles, why did this latest discovery generate so much excitement? This small book reveals that this particle provides the key to understanding one of the most extraordinary phenomena which occurred in the early Universe. It introduces the mechanism that made possible, within tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the generation of massive particles. The Origin of Mass is a guided tour of cosmic evolution, from ... Read more
The discovery of a new elementary particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 made headlines in world media. Since we already know of a large number of elementary particles, why did this latest discovery generate so much excitement? This small book reveals that this particle provides the key to understanding one of the most extraordinary phenomena which occurred in the early Universe. It introduces the mechanism that made possible, within tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the generation of massive particles. The Origin of Mass is a guided tour of cosmic evolution, from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198805175
SKU
V9780198805175
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99-1
About John Iliopoulos
John Iliopoulos is a CNRS Director of Research Emeritus at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where for many years, he was the head of the Theoretical Physics Department. His research was centred around theoretical particle physics. In 1970, in collaboration with Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani, he predicted the existence of the charm quark and proposed the GIM mechanism, ... Read more
Reviews for The Origin of Mass: Elementary Particles and Fundamental Symmetries
Iliopoulos offers an elegant introduction to the Higgs boson and the standard model. Recommended.
M. C. Ogilvie, CHOICE
I do recommend it, especially because it fills an otherwise rather vacant niche between superficial popular-science books and more technical expositions, and is obviously written by an expert in the field.
Phillip Helbig, The Observatory
M. C. Ogilvie, CHOICE
I do recommend it, especially because it fills an otherwise rather vacant niche between superficial popular-science books and more technical expositions, and is obviously written by an expert in the field.
Phillip Helbig, The Observatory