From photons to Higgs : a story of light / Moo-Young Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea Et Duke University, USA.

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	2nd edition.
Published:	New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014] ©2014
Main Author:	Han, M. Y. (Author)
Subjects:	Particles (Nuclear physics) Quantum field theory.
Format:	Book

From photons to Higgs : a story of light /

Table of Contents:

Particles and fields I: Dichotomy
Lagangian and Hamiltonian dynamics
Canonical quantization
Particles and fields II: Duality
Equations for duality
Electromagnetic field
Emulation of light I: Matter fields
Road map for field quantization
Particles and fields III: Particles as quanta of fields
Emulation of light II: Interactions
Triumph and wane
Leptons and quarks
What is gauge field theory?
The weak gauge fields
The Higgs mechanism and the electroweak gauge fields
The Higgs particle
Evolution of the strong force
The history of color SU(3) symmetry
Quantum chromodynamics, QCD
Appendix 1: The natural unit system
Appendix 2: Notation
Appendix 3: Velocity-dependent potential
Appendix 4: Fourier decomposition of field
Appendix 5: Mass units for particles
Appendix 6. Mass-range relation.