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Chapter 9: The Standard Model

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Chapter 9: The Standard Model

pp. 351-434

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, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
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The electroweak unification appears mainly in the neutral current processes. The transition probabilities of all of them are predicted in terms of the weak mixing angle. Measuring the weak mixing angle.

Theory predicts the existence of three vector bosons, W+, W and Z0. It does not predict their masses, but precisely states how they are related with two measured quantities: the Fermi constant and the weak mixing angle. The UA1 experiment and the discovery of the vector bosons.

The precision tests of the electroweak theory performed at the LEP electron–positron collider and at the Tevatron proton–antiproton collider.

The last missing element of the SM, the Higgs boson. The spontaneous symmetry breaking and the boson. The searches at LEP and at the Tevatron. The Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS and CMS experiments. The discovery of 2012. Checking Higgs physics, measuring its mass and width, its spin and parity, its couplings to the bosons and to the fermions. All agree with the predictions of the Standard Model, so completing the experimental verification of its basic building blocks.

Keywords

  • electroweak
  • weak mixing angle
  • intermediate vector boson
  • UA1
  • LEP
  • Tevatron
  • self-coupling
  • gauge symmetry
  • spontaneous breaking
  • LHC
  • Higgs boson

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