Title:
The Higgs boson and beyond / Sean Carroll.
ISBN:
9781629971148
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2015]
©2015
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from container.
"Course no. 1205"--Disc surface.
"12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture."
DVD; NTSC; full screen presentation.
Contents:
Disc 1. Lectures: 1. Importance of the Higgs boson -- 2. Quantum field theory. -- 3. Atoms to particles -- 4. Power of symmetry -- 5. Higgs field -- 6. Mass and energy -- Disc 2. Lectures: 7. Colliding particles -- 8. Particle accelerators and detectors -- 9. Large Hadron collider -- 10. Capturing the Higgs boson -- 11. Beyond the standard model of particle physics -- 12. Frontiers: Higgs in space.
Summary:
In this course you will investigate what makes the discovery of the Higgs boson particle so important, how the discovery was made, and what implications the discovery has for the future of physics.
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Language Note:
In English.
Performer:
Lecturer: Professor Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology.
OCLC Number:
ocn905120180
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