Re:Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
by ddavis on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:32AM
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The introductory chapter of "Introduction to Elementary Particles" by David Griffiths. It doesn't require much knowledge of physics but tells the story of how the theory came to be over the 20th century (based on experimental evidence and the theoretical work happening in parallel).
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Re:Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
by bobmarley1 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:05PM
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Idk if I would recommend Griffiths, his texts are usually extremely rigorous. I can't speak for this one but certainly his ED and QM books.
Re:Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
by ddavis on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:01PM
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Yes I agree that he has a full semester+ of undergraduate/early graduate "course work" in his books... but the first chapter of his particle physics book has almost zero math -- it's just a great story.
Re:Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
by mhh__ on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:28PM
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His elementary particles book - I say having skimmed and the not bought it, so a I may be wrong - looks a good place to start by virtue of both containing a full introduction to the phenomenology behind particle physics and also an introduction (but only an introduction, compared to (say) Weinberg) the mathematics behind it.