PP7 · Electroweak unification & the Higgs
A 18-module path through pp7 · electroweak unification & the higgs, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Properties of the W bosons
- Weak isospin & hypercharge
- The electroweak gauge group SU(2)xU(1)
- Electroweak unification
- The weak mixing angle
- The weak neutral current
- Decays of the Z boson
- The Z resonance & LEP
- The number of light neutrino generations
- Measuring the W mass
- Electroweak radiative corrections
- The top quark
- The need for the Higgs boson
- Lagrangians & local gauge invariance
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking
- The Higgs mechanism
- Higgs couplings & properties
- The discovery of the Higgs boson