Electroweak Symmetry Breaking The Bottom-Up Approach /

• Main Author: Kilian, Wolfgang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 198
• Subjects: Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Particle acceleration.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.

The mechanism responsible for the generation of the mass of an particle has emerged as one of the most urging questions in fundamental physics. The effective-theory approach provides the theoretical basis for a model-independent description of the effects sensitive to this mechanism and their impact...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Effective Theories of Electroweak Interactions: Fermi Theory, Massive Gauge Bosons, the Chiral Lagrangian, the Standard Model and beyond
• Scattering Amplitudes of Massive Vector Bosons: Goldstone Boson Scattering, Resonances, Non-Resonant Inelastic Scattering
• Collider Signatures: Precision Observables, W and Z Scattering Amplitudes, Lepton Colliders, Hadron Colliders
• Outlook.