Peter Woit gives a generally positive review of the new book by Leon Ledermann, "Beyond the God Particle." "The new book isn’t really a general introduction to [High Energy Physics], but is focused on two pretty much unrelated subjects. The first is the actual physics of the Higgs field, with a long and detailed explanation of chirality and the way in which interaction with the Higgs field provides particle mass terms. This is great material for anyone who has been subjected to endless attempts at explaining this as the Higgs being like molasses, or a room full of people, or any number of other metaphors that don’t really explain anything. Lederman and Hill go way beyond this, with a much more extensive and serious discussion, while still staying away from using equations. For someone who wants to understand as much as possible about what “particles get mass from the Higgs” means without looking at a Yukawa term in a Lagrangian, this is the place." math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6327
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 19:05:35 +0000
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