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Theoretical And Experimental Aspects Of The Higgs Mechanism In The Standard Model And Beyond, Alessandra Edda Baas
Theoretical And Experimental Aspects Of The Higgs Mechanism In The Standard Model And Beyond, Alessandra Edda Baas
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
The Standard Model of particle physics is the best existing theory for describing the interactions between elementary particles. Even though the Standard Model has been confirmed in many experiments, there remain unanswered questions. One of the main questions is how fermions and most gauge bosons get masses; the Standard Model begins with them as massless. The Higgs effect is a mechanism to explain how fermions and several gauge bosons do get masses in the Standard Model. The corresponding Higgs boson is the only particle that has not yet been detected.
This Thesis gives a complete review of the Higgs effect …