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1 online resource (448 pages) |
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Frontiers in Physics ; v. Vol. 80 |
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Frontiers in physics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Frontiers in Physics; Editor's Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; 1: Introduction and Preliminaries; 1.1 The Higgs Mechanism; 1.2 Notation; 1.3 Theoretical Overview; 1.4 Higgs Search Overview; 1.5 The Relevance of the Top Quark Mass; 1.6 Post-Publication Update on Higgs Masses; 2: Properties of a Standard Model Higgs Boson; 2.1 Higgs Boson Couplings and Decays; 2.2 Low-Energy Theorems Involving Higgs Bosons; 2.3 Decays with a Higgs Boson in the Final State; 2.4 Radiative Corrections (and the â#x80;#x9C;Screening Theoremâ#x80;#x9D;) |
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2.5 Higgs Mass Bounds: Vacuum Stability and Triviality2.6 Unitarity Constraints on the Higgs Sector; 3: How to Search for the Minimal Higgs Boson; 3.1 Very Light Higgs Bosons (mass â#x89;² 5 GeV); 3.2 Light Higgs Boson (5 â#x89;² mǿο â#x89;² 85 GeV); 3.3 The Effective-W Approximation; 3.4 Intermediate Mass, Heavy, and Obese Higgs Bosons; 4: Beyond the Minimal Model: Two Higgs Doublets and the Minimal Supersymmetric Model; 4.1 Two-Higgs-Doublet Modelâ#x80;#x94;General Analysis; 4.2 The Minimal Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model (MSSM); 4.3 Tabular Comparison of e+eâ#x80;#x94; and Hadron Colliders |
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5: Beyond the Minimal Supersymmetric Model: Higgs Doublets and Singlets5.1 The Mixing Hierarchy Problem; 5.2 The Minimal Supersymmetric Model with Higgs Doublets and Singlets; 5.3 Superstring-Inspired Models Based on E6; 6: Other Approaches with Non-Minimal Higgs Sectors; 6.1 CP Violation and Higgs Bosons; 6.2 Axions and Majorons; 6.3 The H ± W â#x95;Þ Z Vertex: A Signature of Exotic Higgs Representations; 6.4 A Model with Higgs Triplets; 6.5 Left-Right Symmetric Models; 7: Alternatives to the Weakly-Coupled Higgs; 7.1 Technicolor; 7.2 Walking Technicolor; 7.3 Composite Higgs Bosons |
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Appendix A: Higgs Boson Feynman Rules in the Minimal Supersymmetric ModelA. 1 Feynman Rules with One Gauge Boson and Two Higgs Bosons; A.2 Feynman Rules with Two Gauge Bosons and One Higgs Boson; A.3 Feynman Rules with Two Gauge Bosons and Two Higgs Bosons; A.4 Cubic and Quartic Higgs Scalar Interactions; A.5 Higgs Couplings to Quark (or Lepton) Pairs; A.6 Faddeev-Popov Ghost Vertices; A.7 Higgs Couplings to Charginos and Neutralinos; A.8 Trilinear Higgs Couplings to Squark (or Slepton) Pairs; A.9 Quartic Higgs Couplings to Squark (or Slepton) Pairs |
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Appendix B: Formulae for Higgs Boson Decay Widths for Two-Body Channels in the Minimal Supersymmetric ModelAppendix C: Formulae for Neutral Higgs Boson Decays to γγ and Zγ in the Two-Doublet and the Minimal Supersymmetric Model; Index |
| Summary |
The Higgs Hunter's Guide is a definitive and comprehensive guide to the physics of Higgs bosons. In particular, it discusses the extended Higgs sectors required by those recent theoretical approaches that go beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry and superstring-inspired models |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Higgs bosons.
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Higgs bosons
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haber, Howard
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Kane, Gordon
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Dawson, Sally
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| ISBN |
9780429964992 |
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0429964994 |
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