The Search and Discovery of the Higgs Boson: A Brief Introduction to Particle Physics

by Luis Roberto Flores Castillo

On July 4, 2012 the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced by CERN and quickly became the hottest topic of the scientific community. This new book is written by someone who worked at CERN primarily in the search for, and now the study of, the Higgs boson. It is a brief and exciting overview of the issues, instruments and techniques relevant to the search for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and is intended for physics students new to the subject of particle physics.

Emotional engagement has always been a powerful tool for explaining science to the general public, but always seems to be missing from books for science students. This book tries to share as much background information as possible while still engaging students with materials that catches their imagination and hopefully drives them toward further research.

The Higgs boson may be the one particle that was studied the most before its discovery and the story from postulation in 1964 to detection in 2012 is a fascinating one. The story is told here while detailing the fundamentals of particle physics.

96 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2016